Radeon RX 480 and Radeon R7 260X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon R7 260X
Radeon RX 480
8883
Radeon R7 260X
3282
Radeon RX 480
Radeon R7 260X
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
October 2013
Bus support
n/a
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1000 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
896
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
61.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
104 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
2.0
+
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
1
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-