NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 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)

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860 +131%

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

RV790

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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