Radeon HD 7590M and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7590M
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Thames XT
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2012
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
600 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
576.0 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
96
Power consumption (TDP)
18 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.40
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
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