Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon R9 260 OEM

Radeon RX 590
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 590
Radeon R9 260 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R9 260 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 590

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 260 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 590

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 590

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 590Radeon R9 260 OEM
GPU NamePolaris 30 (Polaris 30 XTX)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders2304vs896
Compute Units36vs14
Core clock1257 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs144vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 590Radeon R9 260 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 590Radeon R9 260 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs85 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    49.44 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    222.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 590
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 590
    7119.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better