GeForce GTS 250 and Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G92B
Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2009
March 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
825 MHz
Core clock speed
738 MHz
750 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
320
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
16.50
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
14.4 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 (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