GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon HD 6530M - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 250

Radeon HD 6530M

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G92B

Capilano-LP

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

March 2009

November 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-II

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

738 MHz

500 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

387.1 gflops

400.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

627 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

400

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

26 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

9.000

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

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)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.0

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A