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Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The Radeon R7 260X makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 470 11756 points
Radeon R7 260X 4381 points
Difference: 7375 (168%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 26 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X 14 Mh/s
Difference: 12 (86%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 289 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X 95 Sol/s
Difference: 194 (204%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Radeon RX 470 120 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 211200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 107200 (103%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (about 92%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 56928 (92%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12032 (68%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R7 260X Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 August 2016
Code Name Bonaire XTX Polaris 10
Memory 2048 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1100 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 6500 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 115 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 104000 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61600 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17600 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 896 2048
Texture Mapping Units 56 128
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2080 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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