GeForce 9700M GTS vs Radeon R7 A260
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock980MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9700M GTS
127
Radeon R7 A260
+492%
752
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
384
24
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
12.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.52 GTexel/s
127.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Topaz
NB9E-GS
GPU Variant
Topaz XT
(216-0858020)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5