NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M 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 GTX 470M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M +133%

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

12

288

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

GT215

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

332 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

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