AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (107W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +1108%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2008

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

448bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GT200B

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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