NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q 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 RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

9616 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +9091%

28.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

112

304

TMUs

56

112

ROPs

16

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

64 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

163.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

442.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

28.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

28.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

442.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

G92

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

65 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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