NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +1406%

7.188 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1130 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

28

ROPs

64

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 10

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

251 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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