Radeon HD 8590M and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8590M
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Sun
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
-
Core clock speed
620 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.50
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
36 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Power management
-
8.0