Radeon R7 M260 and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon HD 3870
Radeon R7 M260
511
Radeon HD 3870
572
Radeon R7 M260
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
RV670
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
November 2007
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
12.43
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
DirectX® 12
10.1 (10_1)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.3
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-