AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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AMD Radeon 550X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (38W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile +523%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GT215

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

38W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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