NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R7 260

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile and AMD Radeon R7 260 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile

AMD Radeon R7 260

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
7250x more texture fill rate: 348.0 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
9.7x more pipelines: 7424 vs 768
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2 GB
Around 23% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1625 MHz
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 710 vs 559
6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17226 vs 2892

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 17 December 2013
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Texture fill rate	348.0 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	7424 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1625 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	710 vs 559
PassMark - G3D Mark	17226 vs 2892

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 260

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 165 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 165 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 260

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

710

559

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17226

2892

Name	NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R7 260
PassMark - G2D Mark	710	559
PassMark - G3D Mark	17226	2892
Geekbench - OpenCL	125547
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		26.189
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		798.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		45.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		240.395

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R7 260
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 2.0
Code name	GA103	Bonaire
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	17 December 2013
Place in performance rating	67	570
Design		AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$109
Price now		$89.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		44.11
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	975 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	696.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	22.27 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	22.27 TFLOPS
Pipelines	7424	768
Pixel fill rate	144.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	348.0 GTexel/s	48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	115 Watt
Floating-point performance		1,536 gflops
Stream Processors		896
Transistor count		2,080 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		170 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	104 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1625 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DDMA audio
FreeSync