Mobility Radeon X1600 and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon X1600
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
M56
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
February 2006
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Boost clock speed
450 MHz
-
Core clock speed
5 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
157 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
17
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.800
17.60
Memory type
DDR/DDR2/GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
940 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
15.04 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0