Mobility Radeon 9600 vs GeForce GTS 260M

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name	N10E-GS	M10
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	15 June 2009 (14 years ago)	1 June 2004 (19 years ago)
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 cores	96	6
CUDA cores	96	no data
Core clock speed	550 MHz	2 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	300 MHz
Number of transistors	727 million	76 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	38 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	17.60	1.200
Floating-point performance	264 gflops	no data
Gigaflops	396	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTS 260M and Mobility Radeon 9600 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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 size	large	medium sized
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
SLI options	+	no data
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B	no 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 type	GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 / 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 2000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB/s	3.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Technologies

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

Power management

8.0

no data

API support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	15 June 2009	1 June 2004
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	130 nm

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