NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (145W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3 +10%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

128

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

RV670

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

145W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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