NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +11260%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

84

192

Shading Units

10752

64

TMUs

336

28

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GB203

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

0

1.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

576 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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