NVIDIA GeForce G 205M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G 205M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

  • Around 15% higher core clock speed: 518 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 12x more pipelines: 192 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Core clock speed 518 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines 192 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce G 205M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Essentials

Architecture G9x Tesla 2.0
Code name MCP79MX GT200B
Launch date 1 January 2010 8 December 2009
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 518 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 16 192
Floating-point performance 414.7 gflops
Texture fill rate 33.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 182 Watt
Transistor count 1,400 million

API support

DirectX 10 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB
Memory bandwidth 112.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 448 Bit
Memory clock speed 2016 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

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