Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R7 M260
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon R7 M260
511
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Cypress
Opal Pro / Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
January 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
850 MHz
715 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
721.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
384
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
68.00
23.52
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
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
-
+