Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
RV6xx (2007−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
M88 CF
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2008
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
580 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2x 371.2 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
96
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.280
17.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
750 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
48 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0