GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GT 630

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GT 630
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 630

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 630

85 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.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 250

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GT 630
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs585 million
Shaders128vs96
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock702 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GT 630
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GT 630
TDP150 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 630
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 630
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better