Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
April 2007
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
32
Power consumption (TDP)
-
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.3
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-