GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon RX 5950 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon RX 5950

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GT200

Navi 21

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1535 MHz

Core clock speed

576 MHz

-

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

21,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

4864

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

350 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

466.6

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

672.0 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)

12.0 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

-

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

-