AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

VS

AMD Radeon R7 A260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 A260 +101%

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

384

Shading Units

128

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

23.52 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

G92

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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