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Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon R7 260X

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Performance score

Radeon HD 6870 · 1 GB GDDR5
3.56
Radeon R7 260X · 4 GB GDDR5
3.99 +12%
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Radeon R7 260X is 12% faster than Radeon HD 6870 by our estimate.

The score is our own estimate from the specs (core count, clock, architecture), not FPS from benchmarks. 100 = the fastest card in our database.

Overview

Radeon HD 6870Radeon R7 260X
Score (0–100) 3.56 3.99
Ranking position 244 237
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Type Desktop Desktop
Architecture TeraScale GCN

Specifications

Radeon HD 6870Radeon R7 260X
Shader cores 1120 896
Boost clock 900 MHz 1000 MHz
FP32 TFLOPS (calculated) 2.02 1.79
Hardware ray tracing no no

Video memory

Radeon HD 6870Radeon R7 260X
VRAM 1 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus 256 bit no data
Memory bandwidth 134 GB/s 104 GB/s

Pros and cons

Radeon HD 6870

  • higher memory bandwidth: 134 vs 104 GB/s

Radeon R7 260X

  • 12% higher overall score
  • more VRAM: 4 GB vs 1 GB

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