NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock3000MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT +13424%

64.51 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

3000 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

320bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

84

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

5376

64

TMUs

336

28

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

576.0 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1008 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

129.0 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.51 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.016 TFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 31

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT+

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

529 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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