GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2013
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsGK106 (GK106-240-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders128vs768
Compute Units8vs4
Core clock702 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs64vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
TDP150 wattsvs134 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs26 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    15.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    62.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    1505.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better