NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +1194%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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