GeForce GTS 260M and Radeon 530X Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 260M

Radeon 530X Mobile

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

N10E-GS

Polaris 24

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

June 2009

April 2017

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

SLI options

MXM Type

MXM 3.0 Type-B

Boost clock speed

1024 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

730 MHz

CUDA cores

Floating-point performance

264 gflops

784.1 gflops

Gigaflops

396

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

727 million

1,550 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

Power consumption (TDP)

38 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.60

24.58

Memory type

GDDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 2000 MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

36 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS

No outputs

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.3

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

Power management

8.0