AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2581MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +2669%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

-

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2560

Shading Units

192

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

28

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

230W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

GT200

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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