AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2013
May 2013
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1200 MHz
Base Clock
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850 MHz
Boost Clock
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900 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
20
Shading Units
896
1280
TMUs
56
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Bonaire
Neptune
GPU Variant
Bonaire XT(215-0839039)
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
85W
100W
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.