Radeon R7 M260X and Radeon 550X Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon R7 M260X
Radeon 550X Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Mars
Polaris 23
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
April 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
715 MHz
1287 MHz
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
549.1 gflops
1,647 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
640
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.16
51.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
48 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_0)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.3
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-