GeForce GTX 260 OEM and Radeon RX 6800 XT - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Radeon RX 6800 XT

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GT200B

Navi 21

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2009

November 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2250 MHz

Core clock speed

518 MHz

1825 MHz

Floating-point performance

414.7 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.15

648.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2016 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.9 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2