GeForce GTX 260M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260M

Radeon HD 8550M

Architecture

G9x (2007−2010)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

N10E-GT

Sun

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2009

November 2012

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

SLI options

2-way

MXM Type

MXM 3.0 Type-B

Boost clock speed

850 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

700 MHz

CUDA cores

112

Floating-point performance

308 gflops

544.0 gflops

Gigaflops

462

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

31 billion/sec

17.00

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 950 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

61 GB/s

14.4 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)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

Power management

8.0