GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce RTX 3090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 250 Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

GeForce RTX 3090 Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

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

10368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

GeForce RTX 3090 +9093%

35580

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

82

128

Shading Units

10496

64

TMUs

328

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GA102

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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