NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

10368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +9093%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

128

328

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

16

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G92B

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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