NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M 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 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M +76%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Sun

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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