Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GTS 450

Radeon R7 M260
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 Jun 2014
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 M260
    100%
  • GeForce GTS 450
    112%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M260GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameTopaz (Topaz XT)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock940 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M260GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M260GeForce GTS 450
TDP0 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date11 Jun 2014vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260
    7.52 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260
    22.56 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M260
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M260
    721.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 M260
    1880
  • GeForce GTS 450
    2120

Points (higher is better)