GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce 405 OEM

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce 405 OEM
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2010
GeForce 405 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 405 OEM

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 250 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 405 OEM
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsGT216 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs100 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs486 million
Shaders128vs48
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock702 MHzvs475 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce 405 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250GeForce 405 OEM
TDP150 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs3 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    3.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    7.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    105.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better