NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +1078%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

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Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 50

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

896

144

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

Bonaire

GB206

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.3

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