NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M videocard review

GeForce GTS 260M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 15 June 2009. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla 2.0 microarchitecture codenamed GT215.

Core clock speed - 550 MHz. Texture fill rate - 17.6 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 96. Floating-point performance - 264 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 727 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 38 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3, GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 57.6 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT215
Launch date	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	264 gflops
Gigaflops	396
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	38 Watt
Transistor count	727 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options	2-way
API support
DirectX	10.1
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management	8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI