Thus, the R7 260X, AMD Radeon 7790, and R9 290X will be the only AMD GPUs to support this capabilitythe AMD R9 270X and MSI R9 280X Gaming 3G won't have it. The company has integrated a DSP from Tensilica that cardand, as it turns out, into Bonaire as well. TrueAudio: AMD spent much time talking up its new TrueAudio technology in the R9 290X. This budget GPU shares multiple features with the AMD R9 290X, which is AMD's highest-end, most powerful GPU when it launches later this fall.

While the R7 260X is a straightforward refresh of the Radeon 7790, it turns out that the Bonaire GPU core that powers both cards isn't just a slimmer version of the AMD Radeon 7850/ AMD Radeon R9 270X. This is where things get a little complicated.

Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test (Opens in a new window). Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. Third, it's cheaper, with a base price of $139 for a 2GB card, as opposed to $149 for the 1GB card. Second, it's clocked higherthe HD 7790 was clocked at 1GHz core clock and 1,500MHz memory, while the R7 260X clocks in at 1,100 MHz core and 1,625MHz for a gain of 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively. First, it doubles its onboard RAM buffer, up to 2GB, from 1GB. The R7 260X improves on the Asus HD 7790 in three ways. The graphics card features two DVI ports, an HDMI port, and a DisplayPort and can drive up to three monitors off one card. Like the Asus HD 7790, the R7 260X ($288.99 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) is based on the company's Bonaire GPU, with 896 stream processors, a 128-bit path to main memory, 56 texture mapping units, and 16 render outputs. The AMD Radeon R7 260X ($139 list), a refresh of the Asus Direct CU II Radeon HD 7790 that we reviewed last year, is the company's main strike against Nvidia's lock on the budget graphics card market.

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