Radeon RX 490M and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 490M
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Polaris
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
August 2016
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
-
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
264 gflops
Gigaflops
-
396
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
17.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
1 GB
Memory bus width
-
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
2.1
Shader Model
-
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Power management
-
8.0