GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon HD 5850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 151W)

Radeon HD 5850 Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

Radeon HD 5850 +439%

2088

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1440

64

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cypress

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO

(215-0735043)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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