NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile 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 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile +372%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

VS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Nov 2017

GeForce 200M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

96

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Lexa

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

38W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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