NVIDIA Quadro 1000M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 1000M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 1000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 569 vs 379
  • 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 194 vs 43
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 January 2011 vs 3 March 2009
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 569 vs 379
PassMark - G2D Mark 194 vs 43

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

  • Around 96% higher core clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 2.8x more texture fill rate: 31 billion / sec vs 11.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 17% higher pipelines: 112 vs 96
  • Around 15% better floating-point performance: 308 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3085 vs 2327
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3085 vs 2327
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1375 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 31 billion / sec vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 112 vs 96
Floating-point performance 308 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3085 vs 2327
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3085 vs 2327

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 1000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
569
379
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
194
43
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2327
3085
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2327
3085
Name NVIDIA Quadro 1000M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
PassMark - G3D Mark 569 379
PassMark - G2D Mark 194 43
Geekbench - OpenCL 2113
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 207.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 23.677
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 894
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1633
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2327 3085
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 894
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1633
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2327 3085

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 1000M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G92
Launch date 13 January 2011 3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $174.95
Place in performance rating 1449 1452
Price now $99.95
Type Mobile workstation Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 8.91

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1375 MHz
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops 308 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 96 112
Texture fill rate 11.2 GTexel / s 31 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 754 million
CUDA cores 112
Gigaflops 462

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized large
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 61 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD