GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 570

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 250

69 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 570

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 570
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsGF110 (GF110-275-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs520 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders128vs480
Compute Units8vs15
Core clock702 MHzvs732 MHz
ROPs16vs40
TMUs64vs60

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 570
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 570
TDP150 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs7 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better