GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon X1950 GT AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP 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 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Radeon X1950 GT AGP Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 150W)

Score

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Feb 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

57W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x Molex

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

RV570

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1 (full)

3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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