NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M AMD Radeon R9 M470X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X +646%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 200M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

96

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Emerald

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

Emerald 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

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5

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