Radeon R9 290X and Radeon R7 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon R7 260
Radeon R9 290X
7648
Radeon R7 260
2978
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon R7 260
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
December 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
768
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
48.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
104 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.3
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-