GeForce GTS 260M and Radeon Xpress 1250 - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 260M
Radeon Xpress 1250
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
N10E-GS
RS690
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
August 2006
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
400 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
-
Gigaflops
396
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
120 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
4
Power consumption (TDP)
38 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
1.600
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
9.0b (9_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-