NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
VS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
VS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

800
Place in performance rating
794
7.68
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
G92B
Code name
R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
4 March 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
12 December 2007 (13 years ago)
$199
Launch price (MSRP)
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$117 (0.6x MSRP)
Price now
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0.23
Value for money
no data
G92B
GPU code name
R600
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

128
Pipelines
320
738 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
754 million
Transistor count
720 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
47.2 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
9.600
387.1 gflops
Floating-point performance
384.0 gflops
105 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
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128
CUDA cores
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128
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
754 million
Number of transistors
720 million
150 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
200 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
9" (228.6 mm) (22.9 cm)
Length
241 mm
6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
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SLI options
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4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR3
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1100 MHz
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
70.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVI
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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S/PDIF
Audio input for HDMI
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+
HDMI
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
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+
CUDA
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.0
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 or ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Finer manufacturing process technology (55 nm vs 80 nm)

Less power consumption (150 Watt vs 200 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (70.4 GB/s vs 51.2 GB/s)

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.1% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (320 vs 128)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 1 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 or ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO .

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 versus ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO performance benchmarks comparison

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