AMD Radeon RX 7800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2800MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

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

3648 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 +7723%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

2800 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

60

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

3840

Shading Units

192

240

TMUs

64

128

ROPs

28

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

358.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

672.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

86.02 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

43.01 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

182W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GT200

Navi 32 XT

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.4 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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