GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTS 250 Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)
GeForce GTX 260 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTS 250
387
GeForce GTX 260
+23%
477
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
24
128
Shading Units
192
64
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
28
64 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.23 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
44.93 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
387.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
182W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
GT200
G92-428-B1
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
