NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M +20%

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon HD 6490M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

160

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Seymour

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption