NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +178%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

16

128

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GF100

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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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