NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M 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 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +606%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 200M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Wimbledon

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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