AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (38W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +149%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

GT215

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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