NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M AMD Radeon R5 M255

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 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 32.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock940MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255 +134%

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon R5 M255

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

940 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

112

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

721.9 GFLOPS

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

45.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Topaz

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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