Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2 vs GeForce GTS 450 DDR3

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 6 Dec 2015
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Jul 2012
GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    100%
  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    112%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450 DDR3

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450 DDR3

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450 DDR3

The GeForce GTS 450 DDR3 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
GPU NameOpal (Opal PRO)vsGF116 (GF116-200-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs144
Compute Units6vs3
Core clock620 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
TDP0 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date6 Dec 2015vs11 Jul 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    5.72 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    4.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    17.16 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    18.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    22.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    549.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    451.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    1880
  • GeForce GTS 450 DDR3
    2120

Points (higher is better)