NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GM107GPU NameGT200
N15P-GT-A1Model numberG200-100-A2
MaxwellArchitectureTesla 2.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
28 nmProcess Size65 nm
1,870 millionTransistors1,400 million
148 mm²Die Size576 mm²

Graphics Card

Mar 12th, 2014Release DateJun 16th, 2008
GeForce 800MFamilyGeForce 200
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 700MPredecessorGeForce 9
PCIe 3.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

2 GBMemory Size896 MB
DDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus448 bit
32.03 GB/sBandwidth111.9 GB/s

Performance

14.43 GPixel/sPixel fillrate16.13 GPixel/s
36.08 GTexel/sTexture fillrate36.86 GTexel/s
1,155 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance476.9 GFLOPS
36.08 GFLOPS (1:32)FP64 (double) performance59.62 GFLOPS (1:8)

Clock Speeds

1001 MHz
2 Gbps effective
Memory Clock999 MHz
1998 Mbps effective
902 MHzGPU Clock576 MHz

Render Config

640Shading Units192
40TMUs64
16ROPs28
2 MBL2 Cache224 KB

Board Design

IGPSlot WidthDual-slot
45 WThermal design power (TDP)182 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
4.6OpenGL3.3
3.0OpenCL1.1
1.1VulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model4.0
5.0CUDA1.3