GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce 210

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 250

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

119 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 250 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTS 250

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce 210
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs260 million
Shaders128vs16
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock702 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs64vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce 210
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250GeForce 210
TDP150 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better