Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon R9 260 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Architecture

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Navi 14 XTX

Bonaire

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2019

December 2013

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1845 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

1100 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,971 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

6,400 million

2,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

896

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

85 Watt

Texture fill rate

162.4

61.60

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

6500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

104.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131