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AMD Radeon R7 260X
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Released October, 2013
AMD Radeon R7 260X
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.5 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Alongside the Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X, AMD launched its entry-level Radeon R7 260X graphics card, fit for visually-intensive desktops with some mild gaming thrown into the mix.
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Released February, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7770
- 1 GHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Feb, 2012)ASUS has decided to price their board at the AMD MSRP, so the added value is really added value over the reference design, since there is no price premium charged for it.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R7 260X vs 7770
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| Passmark, 3DMark 11 Graphics, 3DMark Vantage Graphics and 3DMark06 | |
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| Passmark Direct Compute | |
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How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher clock speed | 1,100 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | 10% higher clock speed | |||
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| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 6,500 MHz | vs | 4,500 MHz | Around 45% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Better passmark score | 2,961 | vs | 2,157 | More than 35% better passmark score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 17,590 | vs | 13,398 | More than 30% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 5,280 | vs | 3,098 | More than 70% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,971 GFLOPS | vs | 1,280 GFLOPS | Around 55% better floating-point performance | |||
| Slightly higher memory bandwidth | 104 GB/s | vs | 72 GB/s | Around 45% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,625 MHz | vs | 1,125 MHz | Around 45% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher texture rate | 61.6 GTexel/s | vs | 40 GTexel/s | Around 55% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher BioShock infinite framerate | 50.9 fps | vs | 24.7 fps | More than 2x higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| More compute units | 16 | vs | 10 | 6 more compute units | |||
| More shading units | 896 | vs | 640 | 256 more shading units | |||
| Slightly more texture mapping units | 56 | vs | 40 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
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| Lower TDP | 80W | vs | 115W | More than 30% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R7 260X vs HD 7770
Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance
3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance
Battlefield 3 (2013) 1920x1080 - Ultra quality + FXAA-HIGH
Radeon R7 260X | by techPowerUp!The game's unique combat system gives you significant freedom over your movement, the actions you take, and your counter-attacks-individual body parts can also be targeted.
BioShock Infinite 1920 x 1080 - Ultra preset + DX11 (DDOF)
Crysis 3 1920 x 1080 - Very High preset + 16xAF + 2xSMAA
Radeon HD 7770 | by Jason-Cross (Apr, 2012)We can look at an individual game, like Crysis 2, and see that the Nvidia card is a good 20 percent faster.
Passmark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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