NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +499%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Hemlock

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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