GeForce4 MX 460 vs GeForce GTS 260M

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameN10E-GSNV17 A3
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 June 2009 (14 years old)6 February 2002 (22 years old)
Current price$230 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96no data
CUDA cores96no data
Core clock speed550 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors727 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)38 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.601.200
Floating-point performance264 gflopsno data
Gigaflops396no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTS 260M and GeForce4 MX 460 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+no data
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR3, GDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s7.2 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsHDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Technologies

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

Power management8.0no data

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)8.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL2.11.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 15 June 2009 6 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 260M and GeForce4 MX 460. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 260M is a notebook card while GeForce4 MX 460 is a desktop one.


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