GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTS 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTX 470
3199
GeForce GTS 250
616
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTS 250
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF100
G92B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
March 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
607 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
448
128
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
128
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
47.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
70.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Two Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A