GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTS 250
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GTS 250 |
| 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 280 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 280
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 280 | | GeForce GTS 250 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GT200 (G200-302-A2) | vs | G92B (G92-428-B1) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 576 mm² | vs | 260 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,400 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 240 | vs | 128 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 602 MHz | vs | 702 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 280 | | GeForce GTS 250 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 512 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 280 | | GeForce GTS 250 | |
|---|
| TDP | 236 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 16 Jun 2008 | vs | 4 Mar 2009 |
GeForce GTX 280
19.30 GP/s
GeForce GTS 250
11.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 280
48.20 GT/s
GeForce GTS 250
44.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 280
142.00 GB/s
GeForce GTS 250
64.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 280
622.10 GFLOPs
GeForce GTS 250
387.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better