NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +1415%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Sep 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

1064 MHz

Base Clock

-

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

112

128

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G92

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.0

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