Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
December 2016
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
1708 MHz
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
-
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
123.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.3
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-