AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +554%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

896

Shading Units

2560

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

100W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GB207

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

9.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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