NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 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 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive +779%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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