GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs GTS 260M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated54
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.33
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGT215AD106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores964608
Core clock speed550 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors727 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)38 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate17.60244.1
Floating-point processing power0.264 TFLOPS15.62 TFLOPS
Gigaflops396no data
ROPs848
TMUs32144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

Laptop sizelargelarge
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s256.0 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 ConnectorsHDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDSPortable Device Dependent
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 115 Watt

GTS 260M has 202.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 260M and GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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