GeForce GTS 260M vs G 105M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1416not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.78no data
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameN10M-GE1GT215
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)15 June 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896
Core clock speed640 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistorsno data727 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rateno data17.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.264 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data396
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options-+
MXM Typeno dataMXM 3.0 Type-B

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR2, GDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHzUp to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data57.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataHDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1011.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 15 June 2009
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 38 Watt

G 105M has 171.4% lower power consumption.

GTS 260M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G 105M and GeForce GTS 260M. We've got no test results to judge.


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