GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon HD 6970 X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 250

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

GPU code name

G92B

Antilles

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

3x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

738 MHz

880 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

387.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

2,640 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

375 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

84.48

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

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