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GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs GeForce GTX 880M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm has core speeds of 576 MHz on the GPU, and 999 MHz on the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 216 SPUs along with 72 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 880M, which comes with GPU clock speed of 954 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1536 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 880M 130 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 171 Watts
Difference: 41 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 880M should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 111888 MB/sec
Difference: 16112 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M should be a lot (more or less 194%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 122112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 41472 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 80640 (194%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 880M is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 30528 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14400 (89%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm GeForce GTX 880M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year December 22, 2008 March 12 2014
Code Name G200b GK104
Memory 896 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 954 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 171 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41472 Mtexels/sec 122112 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 30528 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 216 1536
Texture Mapping Units 72 128
Render Output Units 28 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1400 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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