NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +247%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

15

128

Shading Units

480

64

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GF100

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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