GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon X1550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 250 Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Radeon X1550 Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 150W)

Score

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

RV516

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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