A Closer Look

The heatsink uses a very basic, cost-effective design that works without any heatpipes or a fancy copper base.


AMD has also added a little heatsink that cools the voltage regulation circuitry to the card.


The card requires a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. This configuration is good for up to 150 W of power draw.


The R7 260X uses the same GPU as the HD 7790, and NCP81022 controller specifically designed to handle the dynamic clock algorithm in the Bonaire GPU. The controller supports I2C monitoring, and voltage control is also possible.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by SK Hynix and carry the model number H5GQ2H24MFR-R2C. They are specified to run at 1750 MHz (7000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


AMD's Bonaire graphics processor is built on a 28 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan. It uses 2.08 billion transistors on a die size of 160 mm².