GeForce GTS 260M vs ATI Radeon HD 4225

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRV6xx (2008−2010)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameRS880MGT215
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 May 2010 (14 years ago)15 June 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096
Core clock speed380 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistorsno data727 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data38 Watt
Texture fill rateno data17.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.264 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data396
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options-+
MXM Typeno dataMXM 3.0 Type-B

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno dataUp to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data57.6 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataHDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.111.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2010 15 June 2009
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm

ATI HD 4225 has an age advantage of 10 months.

GTS 260M, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4225 and GeForce GTS 260M. We've got no test results to judge.


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