NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2430MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +7723%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1295 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

240

28

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

263W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 32

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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