GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon 9550 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
Radeon 9550 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
G92B
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
May 2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
738 MHz
425 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
-
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
1.700
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
650 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
10.4 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)
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.0
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A