HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1) vs GeForce GTS 250

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250

Summary

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTS 250

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)GeForce GTS 250
GPU NameSandy Bridge GT1 ()vsG92B (G92-428-B1)
Fab Process32 nmvs55 nm
Die Size149 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors189 millionvs754 million
Shaders6vs128
Compute Units0vs8
Core clock850 MHzvs702 MHz
ROPs1vs16
TMUs1vs64

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)GeForce GTS 250
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)GeForce GTS 250
TDP0 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs4 Mar 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    0.85 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    0.85 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    10.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better