Radeon HD 3650 vs GeForce GTS 250

Radeon HD 3650
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3650
GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3650

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTS 250

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3650GeForce GTS 250
GPU NameRV635 (RV635 PRO)vsG92B (G92-428-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size135 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors378 millionvs754 million
Shaders120vs128
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock725 MHzvs702 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3650GeForce GTS 250
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3650GeForce GTS 250
TDP65 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date20 Jan 2008vs4 Mar 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3650
    2.90 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3650
    5.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3650
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3650
    174.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better