GeForce GTX 560M vs Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

GeForce GTX 560M Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 30 May 2011

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2 Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 6 Dec 2015

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Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 560M
112%
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560M

Around 12% higher average synthetic performance.

Supports PhysX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute

Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Supports Mantle

Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560M

The GeForce GTX 560M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GTX 560M		Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
GPU Name	GF116 (N12E-GS-A1)	vs	Opal (Opal PRO)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	238 mmÂ²	vs	77 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,170 million	vs	1,040 million
Shaders	192	vs	384
Compute Units	4	vs	6
Core clock	775 MHz	vs	620 MHz
ROPs	24	vs	8
TMUs	32	vs	24

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 560M		Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	192 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	625 MHz 2500 MHz effective	vs	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective
Memory Size	1536 Mb	vs	1024 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 560M		Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
TDP	75 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	30 May 2011	vs	6 Dec 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 560M
6.20 GP/s
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
5.72 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 560M
24.80 GT/s
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
17.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 560M
60.00 GB/s
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 560M
595.20 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
549.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 560M
2110
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
1880

Points (higher is better)

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