GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
G92B
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
738 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
76.86
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.0
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126