NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (107W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +1108%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

28

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

224 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

107W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Navi 24

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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