AMD Radeon R7 M260DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M260DX and NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M260DX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 85% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2165 vs 1989
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2165 vs 1989
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 195 vs 159
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 817 vs 382
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 October 2014 vs 1 November 2007
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2165 vs 1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2165 vs 1989
PassMark - G2D Mark 195 vs 159
PassMark - G3D Mark 817 vs 382

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M260DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2165
1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2165
1989
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
195
159
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
817
382
Name AMD Radeon R7 M260DX NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
Geekbench - OpenCL 18010
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1047
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1047
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2165 1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2165 1989
PassMark - G2D Mark 195 159
PassMark - G3D Mark 817 382

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 M260DX NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Tesla
Code name Topaz G92
Launch date 12 October 2014 1 November 2007
Place in performance rating 1254 1251
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 940 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Transistor count 3,100 million 754 million
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 160 gflops
Pipelines 64
Texture fill rate 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP MXM-HE
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0