Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated8
Place by popularitynot in top-10069
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data34.70
Power efficiencyno data15.56
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGT200BNavi 31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 December 2009 (15 years ago)3 November 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1926144
Core clock speed518 MHz1929 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2498 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)182 Watt355 Watt
Texture fill rate33.15959.2
Floating-point processing power0.4147 TFLOPS61.39 TFLOPS
ROPs28192
TMUs64384
Ray Tracing Coresno data96

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm287 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1792 MB24 GB
Memory bus width448 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1008 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.9 GB/s960.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.2
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 December 2009 3 November 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 182 Watt 355 Watt

GTX 260 OEM has 95.1% lower power consumption.

RX 7900 XTX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1271.4% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1000% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 260 OEM and Radeon RX 7900 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.


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