NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +525%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 200M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

96

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Saturn

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

38W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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