GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon RX 7990 XTX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon RX 7990 XTX

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

RDNA 3.0 (2022)

GPU code name

GT200

Navi 31

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

2023

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

3x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

3599 MHz

Core clock speed

576 MHz

-

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

57,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

405 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

1,382

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

24 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

1,152 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3