AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4904 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4312%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Nov 2008

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

5120

Shading Units

216

320

TMUs

72

128

ROPs

28

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

171W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GT200B

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

470 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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