NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 +20%

0.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 200M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

M88

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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