NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +4730%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

192

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

320

28

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 21

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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