AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 vs AMD Radeon R7 M260

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 and AMD Radeon R7 M260 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

AMD Radeon R7 M260

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 43% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 980 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 11 June 2014
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz vs 980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M260

Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320

Pipelines	384 vs 320

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M260

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	AMD Radeon R7 M260
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	902
PassMark - G3D Mark		497
PassMark - G2D Mark		120
Geekbench - OpenCL		4841
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		14.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		145.3
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		19.992
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		77.895
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1404
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1093
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1704
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1404
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1093
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1704

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	AMD Radeon R7 M260
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 3.0
Code name	Vega	Topaz
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	11 June 2014
Place in performance rating	1527	1483
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$799
Price now		$799
Value for money (0-100)		1.33
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	384
Compute units		6
Core clock speed		940 MHz
Floating-point performance		721.9 gflops
Texture fill rate		22.56 GTexel / s
Transistor count		3,100 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		32 GB/s
Memory bus width		128 bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PCIe 3.0
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
Zero Core
ZeroCore