GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce 9800S - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce 9800S
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92B
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
738 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
128
64
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
64
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
19.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI
VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
S/PDIF + HDA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.0
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A