AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2430MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 263W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +7723%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Aug 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

1295 MHz

Base Clock

-

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

192

240

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GT200

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

263W

TDP

182W

600 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 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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