Radeon R2 Graphics vs R7 260X

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking507not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.57no data
Power efficiency4.93no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBonaireBeema
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)27 February 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$139 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896128
Core clock speedno data351 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate61.602.808
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPS0.08986 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs568

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth104 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 27 February 2015
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 15 Watt

R2 Graphics has an age advantage of 1 year, and 666.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 260X and Radeon R2 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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