GeForce GTX 280M and GeForce GTS 260M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 280M
GeForce GTS 260M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
N10E-GTX
N10E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
June 2009
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
MXM-IV
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
+
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
585 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
128
96
Floating-point performance
374.5 gflops
264 gflops
Gigaflops
562
396
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
38 Watt
Texture fill rate
38 billion/sec
17.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 950 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
61 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
8.0