Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce 9700M GTS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce 9700M GTS
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce 9700M GTS
286
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce 9700M GTS
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
NB9E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
July 2008
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
530 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
127.2 gflops
Gigaflops
-
180
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
48
Power consumption (TDP)
-
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
12.72
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.3
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-