NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +1031%

5.398 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1187 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

28

ROPs

32

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 14

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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