NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M +55%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 200M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

400

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Lexington

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

334 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

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