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Appeared on: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
New AMD Radeon R7 260 GPU Shipping Mid-January

AMD today announced the AMD Radeon R7 260, an entry-level GPUpositioned to fill in the gap between the Radeon 260X and 250 models.

The AMD Radeon R7 260 graphics card is based on AMD's Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and supports Mantle, AMD's technology aimed at enabling game developers to design games which can harness the GCN-powered cores of PCs and game consoles.

Compared to the R7 260X, which is a fully enabled Bonaire part, the R7 260 features two less CUs, bringing the SP count down to 768 SPs and the texture unit count down to 48. Clockspeeds have also been decreased, with 260 topping out at 1GHz for the GPU clock and 6GHz for the memory clock. This puts theoretical performance at around 80% of 260X in GPU-intensive applications and 92% in memory-intensive applications.

  AMD Radeon R9 270 AMD Radeon R7 260X AMD Radeon R7 260 AMD Radeon HD 7770
Stream Processors
1280
896
768
640
Texture Units
80
56
48
40
ROPs
32
16
16
16
Core Clock
900MHz
?
?
1000MHz
Boost Clock
925MHz
1100MHz
1000MHz
N/A
Memory Clock
5.6GHz GDDR5
6.5GHz GDDR5
6GHz GDDR5
4.5GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width
256-bit
128-bit
128-bit
128-bit
VRAM
2GB
2GB
1GB
1GB
FP64
1/16
1/16
1/16
1/16
TrueAudio
No
Yes
Yes
No
Transistor Count
2.8B
2.08B
2.08B
1.5B
Board Power
150W
115W
95W
100W
Manufacturing Process
TSMC 28nm
TSMC 28nm
TSMC 28nm
TSMC 28nm
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.1
GCN 1.1
GCN 1.0
GPU
Pitcairn
Bonaire
Bonaire
Cape Verde
Release Date
11/13/13
10/11/13
01/15/14
02/15/12
Price
$179
$139
$109
$159




The new card also features 1GB of VRAM versus 2GB on the 260X.

AMD's official specifications state that power consumption for 260 is 95W, down from 115W on 260X.

The 260 will launch mid-January at an MSRP of $109, according to AMD. AT that price, it is expected to compete with NVIDIA's GTX 650 and GTX 650 Ti models.




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