GeForce GTS 250 and Riva TNT - video card comparison

GeForce GTS 250

Riva TNT

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

GPU code name

G92B

NV4

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

March 1998

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 2x

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

738 MHz

90 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

387.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

350 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

7 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

-

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

0.18

Memory type

GDDR3

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

16 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

110 MHz

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

1.76 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

5.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.0

1.2

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A