NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +561%

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1344

56

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GK104

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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