Radeon R7 260 and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260 vs GeForce GT 550M
Radeon R7 260
2978
GeForce GT 550M
590
Radeon R7 260
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Bonaire
N12P-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2013
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
96
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
48.00
11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-