Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce GT 230M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GT 230M
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce GT 230M
218
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GT 230M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
N10P-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
June 2009
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCI-E 2.0
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
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
105.6 gflops
Gigaflops
-
158
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
48
Power consumption (TDP)
-
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
8.000
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
HDA
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.3
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
Power management
-
8.0
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-