AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

9856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +2649%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce RTX 5080

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

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

10752

56

TMUs

336

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GB203

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GB203

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

Board Design

115W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 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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