NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +1944%

9.754 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

28

ROPs

64

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 10

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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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