GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon HD 6670

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
Radeon HD 6670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6670

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 6670

84 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.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6670

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6670

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250Radeon HD 6670
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs716 million
Shaders128vs480
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock702 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250Radeon HD 6670
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250Radeon HD 6670
TDP150 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs19 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6670
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6670
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better