GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 650
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 650 |
| 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. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTS 250 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G92B (G92-428-B1) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 260 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 754 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 128 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 702 MHz | vs | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTS 250 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTS 250 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Mar 2009 | vs | 27 Nov 2013 |
GeForce GTS 250
11.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650
8.46 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTS 250
44.90 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650
33.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTS 250
64.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTS 250
387.10 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650
812.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better