NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250 +272%

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

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Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

128

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cedar

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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