ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (65W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 +20%

0.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2009

M8x

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

320

Shading Units

112

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

9.280 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

371.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

74.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

70W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

G92

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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