GeForce GTX 260M and GeForce GT 720M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 260M vs GeForce GT 720M
GeForce GTX 260M
390
GeForce GT 720M
475
GeForce GTX 260M
GeForce GT 720M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N10E-GT
N14M-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
April 2013
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
SLI options
2-way
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
938 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
112
-
Floating-point performance
308 gflops
240.0 gflops
Gigaflops
462
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
112
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
31 billion/sec
12.13
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 950 MHz
1800 - 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
61 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3
Display Connectors
DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 2560x1600
LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
-
+
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.5
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
Power management
8.0
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+