GeForce GTS 250M and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250M vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GTS 250M
570
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GTS 250M
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
RV670
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
November 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
497.3 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
12.43
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
72.06 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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-