GeForce RTX 2050 vs GeForce GTX 260

GeForce RTX 2050
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 2050
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2050

62 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce RTX 2050

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameTU107 (TU107)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process12 nmvs65 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,400 million
Shaders896vs192
Compute Units14vs8
Core clock1515 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs32vs28
TMUs56vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2050GeForce GTX 260
TDP120 wattsvs182 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    54.24 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    94.92 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2050
    3037.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better