AMD Radeon R7 260 1GB Video Card Review
AMD Cuts Bonaire GPU Features To Get The Price To $109
The AMD Bonaire XT GPU was first used on the AMD Radeon HD 7790 video card in March 2013 and then more recently on the AMD Radeon R7 260X video card in October 2013. The AMD Radeon HD 7790 and the R7 260X are both affordable mainstream graphics cards aimed at those looking to spend under $150. The Bonaire XT was the first GPU to feature AMD TrueAudio and advanced CrossFire technologies. Last month it was confirmed during the AMD APU2013 conference that this audio DSP was originally designed for the Sony PlayStation 4 game console. So, AMD created TrueAudio technology to be the audio chip inside the PS4 and that could mean when games are ported over to PC that a good number of game titles will be able to use TrueAudio technology it you have the proper plugins/middleware installed on your PC. Only the AMD Bonaire (260/260x) and Hawaii GPU’s (290/290X) have this audio capability, so it will be interesting to see what benefits it brings to owners of those cards in the years to come. Right now AMD TrueAudio and Mantle technologies look good, but there aren’t any games out that take advantage of them!
The AMD Radeon R7 260X was released in October 2013 with the $139 price point in mind, but today you can find AMD board partners like MSI selling factory overclocked Radeon R7 260X cards for $122.98 shipped after rebate and it even qualifies for the AMD Phase II Silver Reward! This means you get two pick two free games from game titles like Thief, Hitman: Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, Deus Ex, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, and Dirt 3. Not a bad deal for the price being paid if you are looking for a video card that can play games on a single 1080P monitor. If spending that much is still a bit much, AMD today released the Radeon R7 260 video card at $109.99. AMD slashed the retail price of the Radeon R7 260X by a fair amount (21%), but also cut or disabled a fair number of things on the video card.
The Radeon R7 260 is powered by the Bonaire GPU that uses AMDs 28nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and features a die size of 160 mm2 and 2.
08 Billion transistors. AMD has disabled two compute units, so instead of having 896 stream processors it has just 768. On top of reducing the number of stream processors by 14.3% they also reduced the clock frequency down to 1000MHz from 1100MHz on the AMD Radeon R7 260X and from 1625MHz to 1500MHz on the memory. It should be noted that the AMD Radeon HD 7790 was clocked at 1000 MHz on the core and 1500 MHz on the memory, so it looks like AMD has gone back to those clock speeds with fewer stream processors. AMD also cut the memory in half, so there is just 1GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit memory bus. This move really shocks us as we figured that the days of a 1GB video cards were a thing of the past. Many game titles use over 1024MB of memory at higher resolutions, so the AMD Radeon R7 260 is clearly aimed at those running 1920×1080 or lower. We didn’t think we’d see discrete desktop graphics cards with 1GB of memory in 2014, but that is not the case. With all these reductions the AMD Radeon R7 260 has just 1.
54 TFLOPs of compute performance versus 1.97 TFLOPS on the Radeon R7 260X and 1.79 TFLOPS on the Radeon HD 7790. Not the most impressive statistics, but you have to keep in mind that in the months ahead that this card will be available for under $100 with rebates.
AMD touts the AMD Radeon R7 260 as being a feature loaded graphics card. Highlights of this card include full support of DirectX 11.1, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, PCI Express 3.0, AMD Eyefinity 2.0, AMD PowerTune, AMD ZeroCore, AMD CrossFire, AMD TrueAudio, AMD Mandle and so on. Let’s take a look at the AMD Radeon R7 260 reference card!
The AMD Radeon R7 260 reference card is a dual-slot video card that measures right at 6.8-inches in length, which makes it ideal for small form factor PCs where space is a premium.
When it comes to video outputs you have a pair of DVI connectors (DVI-I and DVI-D), Display Port and HDMI. The AMD reference card has a high-flow hot air exhaust bracket that is identical to the one we saw on the Radeon HD 7790 and Radeon R7 260X, which is said to reduce air noise and improve airflow for better cooling.
The AMD Radeon R7 260 has a single 6-pin PCI Express power connector located at the end of the video card for 75 Watts of additional power. AMD recommends a 450W or greater power supply with one 75W 6-pin power connector for this video card to operate properly. The AMD Radeon R7 260 has a typical board power rating of just 95 Watts versus the 115W rating on the Radeon R7 260X.
The AMD Radeon R7 260 has a single CrossFire interconnect on top for pairing it with another graphics card. We didn’t have time to test CrossFire configurations, but this card should be able to be paired with any other AMD Radeon graphics card that uses the Bonaire GPU. This means that you can pair a Radeon HD 7790, Radeon R7 260 or Radeon R7 260X together for a CrossFire multi-GPU setup if you are looking to boost your gaming performance.
The back of the card doesn’t have a backplate and none of the memory chips for the 1GB of GDDR5 memory are located on the back.
Let’s see how the AMD Radeon R7 260 does when we try it out in a number of games!
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Radeon R7 260: The Budget Hero That Hasn’t Arrived
AMD paper-launched the Radeon R7 260 in December. The specifications it published, along with the $110 price it announced, got me excited. Sure, high-end cards like the Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 780 Ti get more of the glory. But for gamers on a budget, the mainstream boards derived from that flagship technology are the real heroes. Take AMD’s Radeon HD 7770, for example. It makes 1920×1080 a viable resolution at low to medium detail settings. Understandably, then, the prospect of an even faster Radeon R7 260 for the same $110 was very appealing. I eagerly waited for the product to show up mid-January.
The fifteenth came and went. Now it’s February and, as I write this, there is only one Radeon R7 260 on Newegg, Asus’ R7260-1GD5 with 1 GB of memory for $140 (Ed.: Just prior to publication, an MSI model appeared for $125, too). In comparison, the same company’s R7260X-DC2OC-2GD5, based on a faster version of the Bonaire GPU with twice as much memory, goes for $150.
Other 260Xes with 2 GB sell for as little as $130. Needless to say, as a result of dubious inventory and a high price on the models we can find, my enthusiasm about AMD’s Radeon R7 260 took a severe beating.
Right now, it appears that most of the add-in board partners are choosing not to sell their own R7 260s, preferring instead to push their Radeon HD 7770s until those are gone, along with the Radeon R7 260X. Although the 260’s prospects look grim right now, we also know that things change quickly in the graphics world. So, we’re giving the card a closer look, despite its precarious position.
The Radeon R7 260 employs a cut-down version of the Bonaire GPU, first seen in the Radeon HD 7790 and then in the Radeon R7 260X. Two of the processor’s 14 Compute Units are disabled, resulting in a total of 768 shaders and 48 texture units. The render back-end is untouched; two ROP partitions can handle 16 pixels per clock, while a pair of 64-bit dual-channel memory controllers yield an aggregate 128-bit memory interface.
And because the Radeon R7 260 utilizes Bonaire, it does support AMD’s TrueAudio feature (though we still haven’t seen any software optimized for this capability).
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| Header Cell — Column 0 | GeForce GTX 650 Ti | Radeon HD 7770 | Radeon R7 260 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaders | 768 | 640 | 768 | 896 |
| Texture Units | 64 | 40 | 48 | 56 |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Process Technology | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Core/Boost Clock | 925 MHz | 1 GHz | 1000 MHz | 1100 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1350 MHz | 1125 MHz | 1500 MHz | 1625 MHz |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 86. 4 GB/s |
72 GB/s | 96 GB/s | 104 GB/s |
| Graphics Memory | 1 or 2 GB GDDR5 | 1 GB GDDR5 | 1 or 2 GB GDDR5 | 1 or 2 GB GDDR5 |
| Power Connectors | 1 x 6-pin | 1 x 6-pin | 1 x 6-pin | 1 x 6-pin |
| Maximum TDP | 110 W | 80 W | 95 W | 115 W |
| Newegg Price Range | $110-$175 | $110-$170 | $125-$140 | $130 to $150 |
With roughly 10%-lower clocks, 5% less memory bandwidth, and approximately 14% fewer pixel shaders than the Radeon R7 260X, I expect the Radeon R7 260 to perform right between the 260X and Radeon HD 7770.
Asus’ R7260-1GD5
Let’s have a look at the one Radeon R7 260 we could get our hands on, Asus’ R7260-1GD5. The front of the card is covered in a fan shroud with the company’s classic black and red color scheme. It appears slightly longer than 8.5″. But flip it over and you’ll see that the PCB is much smaller; the cooler extends far past its edge. The circuit board is 7″ x 4.5″. While the card looks substantially-sized, it weighs just over one pound.
The R7260-1GD5 adheres to AMD’s reference clock rates, with a 1000 MHz GPU and GDDR5 memory operating at up to 1500 MHz. Again, you only get 1 GB, which we’d expect to limit the resolutions and detail settings that are playable.
The solid aluminum heat sink is cooled by two 75 mm low-profile fans. There’s one six-pin auxiliary power connector and one CrossFire connector, used to enable dual-card configurations.
Asus arms its card’s rear I/O bracket with one full-sized DisplayPort output, HDMI, and a dual-link DVI connector.
Even legacy VGA is covered through a bundled adapter.
The rest of the bundle is composed of a CrossFire connector, a driver/software CD, and a setup booklet. Asus’ GPU Tweak utility supports this board, and that small piece of software works very well for overclocking.
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Radeon R7 260
- PCIe 3.0 x16 interface
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- Video memory size 2048 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory frequency 1625
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Description
AMD started Radeon R7 260 sales on December 17, 2013 at a suggested price of $109.
This is a desktop video card based on the GCN 2.0 architecture and 28 nm manufacturing process, primarily aimed at gamers. It has 2 GB of GDDR5 memory at 1.63 GHz, and coupled with a 128-bit interface, this creates a bandwidth of 104 Gb / s.
In terms of compatibility, this is a two-slot PCIe 3.0 x16 card. The length of the reference version is 170 mm. An additional 1 x 6-pin power cable is required for connection, and the power consumption is 115 watts.
It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of
7.36%
from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General Information
Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the Radeon R7 260, as well as when sales started and cost at the time.
| Performance ranking | 452 | |
| Value for money | ||
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013-2017) | |
| GPU | Bonaire 9 0158 | |
| Type | Desktop | |
| Design 9001 2 | reference | |
| Release date | December 17, 2013 (9 years ago) | |
| Exit Price | $109 | |
| Current Price | $250 (2.3x ) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
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Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher the better.
Features
Radeon R7 260’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak of Radeon R7 260’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Number of stream processors | 768 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| 1100 MHz | out of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX ) | |
| Number of transistors | 2.080 million | out of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (mobile)) |
| Process | 28nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| TDP | 115 W | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texturing speed | 48.00 | of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
| 57 1.536 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility and dimensions
Information on Radeon R7 260 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one.
For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 170mm | |
| Thickness | 2 slots | |
| Additional power connectors | 1 x 6-pin | 9001 2 |
RAM
Parameters of the memory installed on Radeon R7 260 — type, size, bus, frequency and bandwidth. For video cards built into the processor that do not have their own memory, a shared part of the RAM is used.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum memory | 901 57 2 GB | out of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) | Memory frequency | 1625 MHz | out of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 104 Gb/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs 901 38
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 260.
As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Video connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| Eyefinity 90 | + | DisplayPort Support | + |
Technologies
Technology solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R7 260 are listed here. You will need this information if your graphics card is required to support specific technologies. 9
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R7 260, including their versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 12 | |
| 6.3 9 | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Mantle 009 |
Tests in benchmarks
These are the results of Radeon R7 260 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment.
Overall benchmark performance
This is our overall performance rating. We regularly improve our algorithms, but if you find any inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in the comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
R7 260
7.36
Passmark
This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package. He gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation by running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the latter is done in 4K resolution if possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
R7 260
2891
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests showing a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature that appears to be made of lava. Using a resolution of 1920×1080, Fire Strike demonstrates fairly realistic graphics and is quite demanding on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
R7 260
4380
Mining hashrates
Radeon R7 260 performance in cryptocurrency mining. Usually the result is measured in mhash / s — the number of millions of solutions generated by the video card in one second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 240 Mh/s |
Radeon R7 260 in games
FPS in popular games on the Radeon R7 260, as well as compliance with system requirements. Remember that the official requirements of the developers do not always match the data of real tests.
Relative capacity
Radeon R7 260 overall performance compared to its closest competitors in desktop graphics cards.
AMD Radeon HD 6990
104.21
AMD Cypress
103.13
AMD Tahiti
102.85
AMD Radeon R7 260
100
AMD Radeon HD 6970
97.69
AMD Radeon HD 6930
96.06
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
94.02
Competitor from NVIDIA
The closest competitor of Radeon R7 260 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which is 5% faster on average and higher by 11 positions in our rating.
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Here are some of NVIDIA’s closest competitors to the Radeon R7 260:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
108.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
106.11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
104.62
AMD Radeon R7 260
100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
94.02
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
93.34
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
92.8
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Recommended Processors
Based on our statistics, these processors are most commonly used with the Radeon R7 260.
FX
6300
4.7%
FX
4300
2.9%
A8
6410
2%
Core i5
2400
1.8%
FX
8350
1.6%
A10
5745M
1.6%
Ryzen 5
2600
1.6%
Core i5
3470
1.6%
Athlon II
X4 640
1.6%
A8
9600
1.3%
User rating
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