NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

21568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +22897%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

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

1875 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

448bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

170

192

Shading Units

21760

64

TMUs

680

28

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

GB202

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

576 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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