Radeon R7 M260 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon R7 M260
511
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon R7 M260
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
N/A
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
160
Power consumption (TDP)
-
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
5.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.3
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-