Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Broadway-XT
Opal Pro / Mars
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2010
January 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
700 MHz
715 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,120.0 gflops
721.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
384
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
28.00
23.52
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+