GeForce GTS 260M and GeForce GTX 950 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 260M
GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
N10E-GS
GM206S
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
2016
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
1203 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
937 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
1,946 gflops
Gigaflops
396
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
38 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
76.99
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Power management
8.0
-