GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon RX 580G - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon RX 580G

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

GT200

Polaris 20

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

October 2018

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1330 MHz

Core clock speed

576 MHz

1257 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

185 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

191.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131