Radeon HD 8760 OEM vs Radeon R7 260X

Radeon HD 8760 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8760 OEM
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8760 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 260X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8760 OEMRadeon R7 260X
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs896
Compute Units10vs14
Core clock1000 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8760 OEMRadeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8760 OEMRadeon R7 260X
TDP80 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8760 OEM
    16.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8760 OEM
    40.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8760 OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8760 OEM
    1280.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better