GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon 540 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 250

Radeon 540 Mobile

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

G92B

Lexa

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2009

March 2019

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1124 MHz

Core clock speed

738 MHz

-

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

387.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

512

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

35.97

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

48 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_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.0

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131