GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon HD 7850M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon HD 7850M
GeForce GTS 250
616
Radeon HD 7850M
1413
GeForce GTS 250
Radeon HD 7850M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
G92B
Heathrow Pro
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
738 MHz
675 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
640
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
40 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
27.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
64 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)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.0
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131