NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G94 GT215
GPU variant NB9E-GT1 N10E-GS
Architecture Tesla Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 505 million 727 million
Die size 240 mm² 144 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Aug 21st, 2008 Jun 15th, 2009
Generation GeForce 9M (9800M) GeForce 200M
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 8M GeForce 100M
Successor GeForce 100M GeForce 300M

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 550 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 57.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 64 96
TMUs 32 32
ROPs 16 8
SM count 8 12
Cache L2 64 KB 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 9.600 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 19.20 GTexel/s 17.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 192.0 GFLOPS 264.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 75 W 38 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Board number E569

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.2
Shader model 4.0 4.1

Other Features

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