AMD has now officially launched the Radeon R7 260 graphics card that should fill the market gap between the US $139 priced Radeon R7 260X and a much cheaper US $89 priced Radeon R7 250. Based on the same 28nm Bonaire GPU as the R7 260X, the R7 260 features slightly less stream processors and lower GPU clock as well as a lower US $110 price tag.

As noted, the new R7 260 is based on the same 28nm Bonaire GPU as the Radeon R7 260X but features 768 of the 896 stream processors available in that GPU. The GPU clock is also lowered from 1100MHz on the R7 260X down to 1000MHz. The memory also got a slight cut down as the R7 260 only packs 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at slightly lower 6.0GHz which adds up to 96GB/s of memory bandwidth on its 128-bit memory interface.

The TDP also went down from 115W on the R7 260X to 95W and it needs single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. Although it is practically the same chip that we saw on the Radeon HD 7790, this one has support AMD TrueAudio as well as DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 and AMD Mantle.

As noted, the suggested retail price is set at US $110 but different coolers and custom designs from partners might take the price a bit up.



Source: AMD.com.