GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce FX 5900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce FX 5900
GeForce GTS 250
616
GeForce FX 5900
35
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce FX 5900
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G92B
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
738 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
-
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
850 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
27.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0a
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.0
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A