ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (145W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3 +10%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

320

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

145W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G92B

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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