AMD company decided to introduce 3D-card Radeon R7 260, closing the gap between the models Radeon R7 260X and R7 250.
Radeon R7 260 is built on a chip Bonaire, but, of course, is not fully functional. Number of computing units, compared to Radeon R7 260X, reduced by two: the number of stream processors - 768 texture units - 48 instead of 56. Core clock speed - 1000 MHz effective memory frequency - 6 GHz. Radeon R7 260 applied architecture GCN 1.1, this means support for various innovations, including technology and TrueAudio.
The memory bus width is the same as the older model - 128 bits.
According to the manufacturer TDP Radeon R7 260 - 95 watts. This is 20 watts less than the Radeon R7 260X. And AMD Radeon R7 260 for $ 30 cheaper than the older brother: $ 109 vs $ 139.