Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon R9 260 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

Bonaire

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

December 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

1100 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,971 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

896

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

85 Watt

Texture fill rate

61.60

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

104.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

HDMI

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131