AMD Radeon R7 260 GPU

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/17/2013 10:04 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

AMD today released an entry-level GPU. It's the little brother of the 260X, the 260. The Radeon R7 260 is fitted with a Curacao Pro core which has cut down specifications with a total of 768 Stream processors, a compute performance of 1.54 TFlops, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory and a low TDP of 95W which will be supplied through a single 6-Pin power connector.

Clocks are set at 1.0 GHz for the core while the memory operates at 6.0 GHz effective clock speed aside a 128-bit memory interface. The card is PCI-Express 3.0 compatible

AMD Radeon R7 260 ‘Curacao Pro’ Specifications:

	AMD Radeon R7 260X	AMD Radeon R7 260	AMD Radeon R7 250
GPU Codename	Curacao XT	Curacao Pro	Oland XT
GPU Process	28nm	28nm	28nm
Stream Processors	896	768	384
Core Clock	1100 MHz	1000 MHz	1050 MHz
VRAM	2 GB GDDR5	1 GB GDDR5	1 GB GDDR5
Memory Clock	6.5 GHz	6.0 GHz	4.60 GHz
TDP	115W	95W	65W
Power Configuration	6-Pin	6-Pin	PCI-Express
Compute Performance	1.97 TFlops	1.54 TFlops	806 GLops
Price	$149.99 US	$109.99 US	$89.99 US
Launch	8th October 2013	Mid-January 2014	8th October 2013

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