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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs GeForce GTX 980M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 Texture Address Units and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 980M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1038 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M 100 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 202 Watts
Difference: 102 Watts (102%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980M, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M 128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 111888 MB/sec
Difference: 16112 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M should be quite a bit (more or less 140%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M 99648 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 41472 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 58176 (140%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980M is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M 66432 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 50304 (312%)

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 Core 216 GeForce GTX 980M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year September 16, 2008 October 7 2014
Code Name G200 GM204
Memory 896 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 1038 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 202 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41472 Mtexels/sec 99648 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 66432 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 216 1536
Texture Mapping Units 72 96
Render Output Units 28 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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