GeForce GTX 260 216 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameM74GT200
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date14 May 2007 (17 years ago)16 September 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40216
Core clock speed600 MHz576 MHz
Number of transistors180 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data182 Watt
Texture fill rate2.40041.47
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.5365 TFLOPS
ROPs428
TMUs472

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB896 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit448 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz999 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s111.9 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2007 16 September 2008
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 896 MB

GTX 260 216 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 250% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
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