AMD Radeon R7 M260X vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock715MHz

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M260X

0.549 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M +96%

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260X

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Dec 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

620 MHz

Base Clock

-

715 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

10

384

Shading Units

800

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.720 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

17.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

549.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

Granville

Opal PRO

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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