NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1187%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G92B

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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