Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R9 380

Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%
  • Radeon R9 380
    196%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 96% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

The Radeon R9 380 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R9 380
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire XTX)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders896vs1792
Compute Units14vs28
Core clock1100 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs56vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R9 380
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R9 380
TDP115 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260
  • Radeon R9 380
    12280

Points (higher is better)