AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +161%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

512

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT200

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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