AMD Radeon R7 M260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

AMD Radeon R7 M260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1178MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M260

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +421%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

940 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

980 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1664

24

TMUs

104

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

23.52 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

752.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

148W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GM204

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

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

6.4

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