AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2394MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 XT +10692%

51.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1387 MHz

Base Clock

-

2394 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

448bit

800.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

84

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

5376

Shading Units

192

336

TMUs

64

192

ROPs

28

-

84

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

80 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

459.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

804.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

103.0 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

51.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

1.609 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

182W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GT200

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

529 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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