NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X +161%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Lexa

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

103 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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