AMD Radeon R7 A260: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon R7 A260 sales on 2014. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.6 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R7 A260: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Topaz | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2014 (10 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon R7 A260's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R7 A260's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 980 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 1,550 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Texture fill rate | 23.52 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R7 A260 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R7 A260: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3.6 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 57.6 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 A260. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R7 A260, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.170 |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R7 A260 according to our statistics.
