NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +1229%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 200M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Amethyst

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

E8950

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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