NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 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 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +537%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 200M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.66 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.31 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.962 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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