NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

9856 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +2649%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 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

-

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

896

336

TMUs

56

128

ROPs

16

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

115W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

Bonaire

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

377 mm²

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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