Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 260M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970M vs GeForce GTX 260M
Radeon HD 7970M
3635
GeForce GTX 260M
390
Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GTX 260M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
N10E-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
March 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
2-way
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
850 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
112
Floating-point performance
2,176 gflops
308 gflops
Gigaflops
-
462
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
112
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
31 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
Up to 950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
61 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Power management
-
8.0