GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs 9100M G

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1406not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameMCP77MH MCP79MHGT200B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)8 December 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8192
Core clock speed450 MHz518 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data182 Watt
Texture fill rateno data33.15
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4147 TFLOPS
ROPsno data28
TMUsno data64

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1792 MB
Memory bus widthno data448 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1008 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.9 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1011.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 8 December 2009
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm

GTX 260 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9100M G and GeForce GTX 260 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9100M G is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 260 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
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