GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders128vs192
Compute Units8vs4
Core clock702 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs64vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP150 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better