NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M AMD Radeon R5 A230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230 +107%

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

96

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Jet

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

38W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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