Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2 vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 6 Dec 2015
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    100%
  • GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
    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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Rev. 2

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Rev. 2

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

The GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
GPU NameOpal (Opal PRO)vsGF116 (GF116-200-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock620 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
TDP0 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date6 Dec 2015vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

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

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

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

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

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

Points (higher is better)