NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +1668%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 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

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT215

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

38W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.1

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