NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 6600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2491MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

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

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (132W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 +1771%

8.928 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1626 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2491 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

28

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

28

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

132W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 23

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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