NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

20992 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +7041%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

Radeon R7 260

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

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

768

680

TMUs

48

192

ROPs

16

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

88 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

95W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

Bonaire

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

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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