NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Around 50% higher pipelines: 192 vs 128
Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 896 MB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1998 MHz vs 800 MHz

Pipelines	192 vs 128
Maximum memory size	896 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1998 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 576 MHz
Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 182 Watt

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 576 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 182 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	G9x
Code name	GT200B	NB9E-GT
Launch date	23 July 2008	15 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	576 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 / 65 nm
Pipelines	192	128
Texture fill rate	36.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	182 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	1508 Million
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
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	10
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	896 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	111.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	448 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1998 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD
SLI