AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon R7 M260

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M

AMD Radeon R7 M260

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M260 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +189%

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260

0.752 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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Radeon R7 M260

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2014

London

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

940 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.52 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

752.6 GFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Topaz

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

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5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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