NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +388%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

112

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G92

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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