GeForce GTS 260M and Radeon RX 6600 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 260M
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N10E-GS
Navi 23
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
July 2021
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
2589 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
1968 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
-
Gigaflops
396
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
11,060 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
38 Watt
160 (TGP) Watt
Texture fill rate
17.60
331.4
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Power management
8.0
-