AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD Radeon R7 A260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1038MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 A260

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +253%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

980 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

23.52 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GM204

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

2

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v

3

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

4

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930A

5

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD Radeon HD 7770M

6

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

7

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

8

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD FirePro M5800

9

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD Radeon R9 M375X

10

AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption