NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M 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 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

688 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +250%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

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

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

800

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Granville

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

166 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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