NVIDIA GeForce 705M
VS
AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA GeForce 705M
VS
AMD Radeon R7 260

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

879
Place in performance rating
381
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Value for money (0-100)
36.74
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GF119
Code name
Bonaire
Laptop
Type
Desktop
1 June 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
17 December 2013 (7 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$109
$163
Price now
$159 (1.5x MSRP)
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Design
reference
0.07
Value for money
4.76
GF119
GPU code name
Bonaire
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

48
Pipelines
768
775 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1100 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
2,080 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
15 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
5.904
Texture fill rate
48.00
141.7 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
48
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
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Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
292 million
Number of transistors
2,080 million
15 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
115 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
170 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
PCI Express 2.0
Bus support
PCIe 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
-
Shared memory
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DDR3
Standard memory configuration
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
+
Up to 2048x1536
VGA аnalog display support
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Up to 2560x1600
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
no data
Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support
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Up to 1920x1200
LVDS signal support
no data
+
HDCP content protection
no data
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
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+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260 is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
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Optimus
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AppAcceleration
-
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
-
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PowerTune
-
no data
TrueAudio
-
no data
ZeroCore
-
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DDMA audio
+
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
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Enduro
-
+
FXAA
no data
+
Blu-Ray 3D Support
no data
+
Direct Compute
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Vulkan
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5.1
Shader Model
6.3
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
no data
Mantle
-

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon R7 260 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 705M or AMD Radeon R7 260 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon R7 260
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon R7 260
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon R7 260
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon R7 260
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 705M
AMD Radeon R7 260
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 705M

Less power consumption (15 Watt vs 115 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 260

11.28% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($159 (1.5x MSRP) vs $163)

More pipelines (768 vs 48)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (104 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 705M or AMD Radeon R7 260?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R7 260 .

NVIDIA GeForce 705M versus AMD Radeon R7 260 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 705M
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