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

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 10 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

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

4928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4858%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jul 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

24

5120

Shading Units

192

320

TMUs

64

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

36.86 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

182W

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-B3

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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