AMD announces Radeon R7 260

Graphics card maker AMD has not yet finished launching graphics cards in their latest Radeon 200 series. Today, another model is introduced in the performance class R7, which is based on a scaled-down variant of the Bonaire graphics circuit and is placed just below the Radeon R7 260X in the performance hierarchy.

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1 Specifications: Radeon R7 260

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Specifications: Radeon R7 260

	R9 270	R7 260X	R7 260	R7 250
GPU	Curacao XT	Bonaire XT	Bonaire Pro	Oland XT
Family	Volcanic Islands	Volcanic Islands	Volcanic Islands	Volcanic Islands
Technical	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm
Architecture	GCN	GCN	GCN	GCN
Streamproc.	1 280 st.	896 st.	768 st.	384 st.
GPU frequency	925 MHz	1 100 MHz	1 000 MHz	1 050 MHz
Memory bus	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	2 / 4 GB	2 GB	1 GB	1 GB
Minnestyp	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory frequency	5 600 MHz	6 500 MHz	6 000 MHz	4 600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	179,2 GB/s	104 GB/s	96 GB/s	73,6 GB/s
Trueaudio	No	And	And	No
TDP	150 W	115 W	95 W	65 W

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The Radeon R7 260 is equipped with 768 stream processors in 1,000 MHz and a 128-bit memory bus with GDDR5 memory clocked at 6,000 MHz. The biggest difference compared to the Radeon R7 260X is that the amount of graphics memory goes down from 2 GB to 1 GB for the newcomer. The graphics card’s power consumption is specified at 95 watts.

The Radeon R7 260 goes up against the Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 Ti in the lower middle class and will be launched in mid-January. The recommended sales price is 79 euros excluding VAT, corresponding to approximately 900–1,000 kronor including VAT.