Radeon HD 7790 vs Radeon R7 260X

Radeon HD 7790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7790
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7790
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    102%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 7790
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7790

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (8 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7790Radeon R7 260X
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire XT)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders896vs896
Compute Units14vs14
Core clock1000 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7790Radeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7790Radeon R7 260X
TDP85 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7790
    16.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7790
    56.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7790
    96.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7790
    1792.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7790
    6110
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • Radeon HD 7790
    33
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon HD 7790
    33
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 7790
    21
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • Radeon HD 7790
    34
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 7790
    30
  • Radeon R7 260X
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • Radeon HD 7790
    25
  • Radeon R7 260X
    26

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 7790
    19
  • Radeon R7 260X
    22

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • Radeon HD 7790
    20
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)