GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon 3000 IGP - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 250

Radeon 3000 IGP

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

G92B

RS780

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

2009

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

738 MHz

350 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

387.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

180 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

40

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

1.400

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI

Motherboard Dependent

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.0

OpenGL

3.0

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A