NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 820M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (15W vs 38W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 820M
+12%
0.298 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 260M
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Jun 2009
GeForce 800M
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
12
96
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
12.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
297.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
24.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
15W
TDP
38W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
GF117
GPU Name
GT215
N15V-GM
GPU Variant
N10E-GS
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
