GeForce GTS 250M and GeForce 7900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250M vs GeForce 7900 GT
GeForce GTS 250M
570
GeForce 7900 GT
266
GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce 7900 GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
G71
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
March 2006
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
450 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
-
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
48 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
10.80
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
42.24 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-