AMD has released yet another mid-range graphics card — Radeon R7 260.
The R7 260 is a new Bonaire based video card, which will be available for $110 beginning mid-January next year.
So what is AMD Radeon R7 260? It’s a new installment of Bonaire processor with 768 Steam Cores. It’s obviously a slower, and cheaper variant of 260X. It will be available only in 1GB models (260X is a 2GB card).
In terms of clocks we have a small decrease to 1000 MHz for the GPU and 6000 MHz for the memory. Total dissipated power was measured at 95W, which is 20W less than 260X.
First time I saw this card was two days ago, and I didn’t really realize it was a new card (it looks exactly the same as 260X).
The Radeon R7 260 sits above GeForce GTx 650 Ti, so yes it’s not really a high-end gaming card, but still it’s considerably cheap (and you can always buy two for CrossFire).
Below you can see some charts (which I borrowed from WCCFtech).
| R9 270 | R7 260X | R7 260 | R7 250 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Curacao XT | Bonaire XT | Bonaire Pro | Oland XT |
| Process | TSMC 28 nm | TSMC 28 nm | TSMC 28 nm | TSMC 28 nm |
| Architecture | GCN | GCN | GCN | GCN |
| Stream Cores. | 1280 | 896 | 768 | 384 |
| GPU Clock | 925 MHz | 1 100 MHz | 1 000 MHz | 1 050 MHz |
| Interface | 256-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory | 2 / 4 GB | 2 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | 5 600 MHz | 6 500 MHz | 6 000 MHz | 4 600 MHz |
| Bandwidth | 179,2 GB/s | 104 GB/s | 96 GB/s | 73,6 GB/s |
| TDP | 180 W | 115 W | 95 W | 65 W |
Source: WCCFtech
