Radeon HD 6290 and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6290
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Zacate
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2011
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Boost clock speed
400 MHz
-
Core clock speed
280 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
104 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
96
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.200
17.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0