NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 850M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

Lower TDP (38W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M +337%

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GT215

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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