GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce RTX 5090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

GeForce RTX 5090 Advantages

Released 15 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

21632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

GeForce RTX 5090 +26876%

104400

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1635 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

170

128

Shading Units

21760

64

TMUs

680

16

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

460.8 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1632 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

104.4 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.4 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.632 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GB202

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

0

0.754 billion

Transistors

Unknown

260 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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