NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

21544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +20366%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Nov 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

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

448bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

27

21760

Shading Units

216

680

TMUs

72

192

ROPs

28

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

88 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

171W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GT200B

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

470 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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