Radeon R7 M260 and Radeon HD 6550M - video card comparison
Radeon R7 M260
Radeon HD 6550M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
Capilano-PRO
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
November 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
400
Power consumption (TDP)
-
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
12.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.3
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-