AMD Radeon VII
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M260
AMD Radeon VII
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M260

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

39
Place in performance rating
890
31.61
Value for money (0-100)
0.62
Vega
Architecture
GCN
Vega 20
Code name
Topaz
Desktop
Type
Laptop
7 February 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
7 January 2014 (7 years ago)
$699
Launch price (MSRP)
$799
$53 (0.1x MSRP)
Price now
$430 (0.5x MSRP)
35.81
Value for money
0.04
Vega 20
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

3840
Pipelines
384
1400 MHz
Core clock speed
715 MHz
1750 MHz
Boost Clock
980 MHz
13,230 million
Transistor count
1,550 million
7 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
295 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
420.0
Texture fill rate
23.52
no data
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
no data
Compute units
6
3840
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1750 MHz
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
13,230 million
Number of transistors
1,550 million
295 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
305 mm
Length
no data
2x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
no data
Laptop size
medium sized
no data
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260 can be seen in this section.

HBM2
Memory type
DDR3
16 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4096 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1024 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
no data
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260, the size and number of monitors.

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260 is the additional functionality.

no data
AppAcceleration
-
no data
FreeSync
1
no data
HD3D
+
no data
PowerTune
+
no data
TrueAudio
-
no data
ZeroCore
+
no data
Enduro
-
no data
DualGraphics
1
no data
Switchable graphics
1
no data
Zero Core
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.6
OpenGL
4.3
no data
Shader Model
6.3
no data
OpenCL
2.0
no data
Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon R7 M260 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon VII or AMD Radeon R7 M260 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon VII
AMD Radeon R7 M260
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon VII
AMD Radeon R7 M260
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon VII
AMD Radeon R7 M260
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon VII
AMD Radeon R7 M260
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon VII
AMD Radeon R7 M260
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon VII

77.12% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($53 (0.1x MSRP) vs $430 (0.5x MSRP))

More pipelines (3840 vs 384)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 4 GB)

More memory bandwidth (1024 GB/s vs 32 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 M260

There is no accountable advantage

So, AMD Radeon VII or AMD Radeon R7 M260?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon VII .

AMD Radeon VII versus AMD Radeon R7 M260 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score AMD Radeon VII
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon R7 M260