AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +1194%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GT200

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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