GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 250 Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)

GeForce GTX 280 Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

GeForce GTX 280 +60%

622

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

30

128

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GT200

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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