GeForce GTS 260M and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 260M
GeForce 720M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N10E-GS
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
April 2013
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
240.0 gflops
Gigaflops
396
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
96
Power consumption (TDP)
38 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.60
10.00
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-