GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce 6800 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 250 Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

NV41

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full)

2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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