GeForce GTX 260M SLI and Radeon RX 550X Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260M SLI

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Architecture

G9x (2007−2010)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

NB9E-GTX

Polaris 12

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2009

January 2019

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

Boost clock speed

-

1287 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

1176 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1508 Million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

224

640

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

51.48

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

950 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

10

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

FreeSync

-

+