I would definitely like to hear more of these technologies in more and bigger titles to see how things will shake out. Of course we know of Mantle and TrueAudio. I will imagine that some AIB’s, along with putting their own cooler on, will also overclock these from the factory as well, so keep an eye out come mid-January for such cards to hit the market. Our card came in 1000 MHz core and 1500 MHz vram speeds. Of course the card supports Mantle (whenever we see implementations of that hit the wild…) and TrueAudio as well. Memory capacity takes an expected hit and drops down to 1GB at 128-bit bus while power consumption drops to 95W from 115W of the 260X. The 260 is of course based off the Bonaire core of the 260X but with two CU’s chopped off bringing the Stream Processor count down to 768 (from 896 in the 260X). Specifications and Featuresīelow we see what is actually under the hood of this mid-range/budget card.

It is time to see if this card can do accomplish it like its big brother did.

Today, we have a reference model R7 260 to continue to fill in those blanks. If you recall from my ‘ roundup‘, the performance gaps between those cards were pretty significant, on the order of 50% between them. In my last single card review ( AMD R9 270), I mentioned that AMD and its partners are beginning to fill in the blanks in the pricing and performance holes left by only having the 250, 260x, 270x, and 280x lines out (290/290x do not matter in this context).

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