NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XTX 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 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock3300MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX +16902%

81.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

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

2200 MHz

-

Boost Clock

3300 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

96

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

6144

64

TMUs

384

28

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

96

-

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

633.6 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1267 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

162.2 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

81.10 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

355W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 XTX+

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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