NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 15.2x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 182 Watt
  • 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 221 vs 53
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 16 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 182 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 221 vs 53

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1242 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 12.3x more texture fill rate: 36.9 billion / sec vs 3.0 billion / sec
  • 4x more pipelines: 192 vs 48
  • 5x better floating-point performance: 476.9 gflops vs 96 gflops
  • Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 896 MB vs 512 MB
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 999 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1208 vs 286
  • 26x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19512 vs 751
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 1570
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 1570
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1242 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 36.9 billion / sec vs 3.0 billion / sec
Pipelines 192 vs 48
Floating-point performance 476.9 gflops vs 96 gflops
Maximum memory size 896 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 999 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1208 vs 286
Geekbench - OpenCL 19512 vs 751
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342 vs 1570
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342 vs 1570

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
286
1208
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
221
53
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
751
19512
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1570
3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1570
3342
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
PassMark - G3D Mark 286 1208
PassMark - G2D Mark 221 53
Geekbench - OpenCL 751 19512
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 442
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1570 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1570 3342
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 477.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 29.525

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla 2.0
Code name GF108 GT200
Launch date 3 September 2010 16 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1393 1396
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $449
Price now $95.38
Value for money (0-100) 13.70

Technical info

Core clock speed 1000 MHz 1242 MHz
CUDA cores 48 192
Floating-point performance 96 gflops 476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 48 192
Texture fill rate 3.0 billion / sec 36.9 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt 182 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1,400 million
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVIHDTV
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 896 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 111.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 448 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 999 MHz
Memory type (G)DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
3D Vision
SLI