AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 260 and AMD Radeon HD 7550M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 260

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2x more boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 550 MHz
4x more texture fill rate: 48 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Around 92% higher pipelines: 768 vs 400
3.2x better floating-point performance: 1,536 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2892 vs 465
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 559 vs 403

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 December 2013 vs 7 January 2012
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 400
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2892 vs 465
PassMark - G2D Mark	559 vs 403

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

8.2x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 115 Watt
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1625 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 115 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1625 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 260
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2892

465

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

559

403

Name	AMD Radeon R7 260	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2892	465
PassMark - G2D Mark	559	403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	26.189
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	798.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	45.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	240.395
Geekbench - OpenCL		5371

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 260	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Bonaire	Thames
Design	AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Launch date	17 December 2013	7 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$109
Place in performance rating	555	559
Price now	$89.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	44.11
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	768	400
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	716 million
Core clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	104 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DDMA audio
FreeSync