GeForce GTX 260M vs Radeon HD 7970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)
Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)
1168 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 260M
308
Radeon HD 7970M
+606%
2176
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Apr 2012
GeForce 200M
Generation
London
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
950 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
60.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1280
56
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
30.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
308.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Wimbledon
N10E-GT
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT
(216-0836036)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1