GeForce GTS 260M vs Radeon RX 570 Mobile

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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
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameEllesmereGT215
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 December 2017 (7 years ago)15 June 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599.99 no data

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 cores204896
Core clock speed926 MHz550 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million727 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rate154.417.60
Floating-point processing power4.94 TFLOPS0.264 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data396
ROPs328
TMUs12832

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 sizelargelarge
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHzUp to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s57.6 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 outputsHDMIVGADual 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.

FreeSync+-
Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2017 15 June 2009
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 38 Watt

RX 570 Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GTS 260M, on the other hand, has 123.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570 Mobile and GeForce GTS 260M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile
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