GeForce GTX 280M and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280M vs Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GTX 280M
592
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce GTX 280M
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N10E-GTX
Opal Pro / Mars
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
January 2014
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
MXM-IV
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
585 MHz
715 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
374.5 gflops
721.9 gflops
Gigaflops
562
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
38 billion/sec
23.52
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 950 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
61 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.3
Shader Model
4.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
Power management
8.0
-
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+