NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M +41%

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

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GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

G92

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

38W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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