GeForce GTS 260M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTS 260M sales 15 June 2009. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GT2xx architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 38 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTS 260M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GT2xx (2009−2012) | |
| GPU code name | N10E-GS | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 15 June 2009 (15 years ago) | |
| Current price | $230 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTS 260M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTS 260M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 96 | |
| Core clock speed | 550 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 727 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 38 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 17.60 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 264 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
| Gigaflops | 396 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on GeForce GTS 260M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| SLI options | + | |
| MXM Type | MXM 3.0 Type-B |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTS 260M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3, GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | Up to 2000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 57.6 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTS 260M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTS 260M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Power management | 8.0 |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTS 260M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTS 260M is Radeon HD 7520G.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTS 260M according to our statistics.
