Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon R7 260X

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260X .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R7 260X
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders512vs896
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock300 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R7 260X
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R7 260X
TDP65 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better