GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTS 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
5760 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+5148%
20310
GeForce GTS 250
387
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3070
+1146%
13641
GeForce GTS 250
1094
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
16
5888
Shading Units
128
184
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
16
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.23 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.93 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
220W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
G92B
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-428-B1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
