NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +4232%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

27

4608

Shading Units

216

144

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

28

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

32 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

GT200

GB206

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

65 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

10.1

CUDA

1.3

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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