Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon HD 4860

Radeon R7 M260
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 Jun 2014
Radeon R7 M260
Radeon HD 4860
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 4860

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 M260
    100%
  • Radeon HD 4860
    106%

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 4860

Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4860

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4860

The Radeon HD 4860 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M260Radeon HD 4860
GPU NameTopaz (Topaz XT)vsRV790 (RV790 GT)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs282 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs959 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock940 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M260Radeon HD 4860
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs750 MHz
3000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M260Radeon HD 4860
TDP0 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date11 Jun 2014vs9 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260
    7.52 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260
    22.56 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    22.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M260
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M260
    721.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4860
    896.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 M260
    1880
  • Radeon HD 4860
    2000

Points (higher is better)