GeForce GTX 260M and Radeon HD 6570M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260M
Radeon HD 6570M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N10E-GT
Capilano
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
November 2010
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
SLI options
2-way
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
112
-
Floating-point performance
308 gflops
520.0 gflops
Gigaflops
462
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
112
400
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
31 billion/sec
13.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 950 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
61 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-