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GeForce GTS 250 512MB vs Radeon HD 5770

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The GeForce GTS 250 512MB comes with a core clock speed of 738 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1100 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 128 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5770, which comes with GPU core speed of 850 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1200 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 512MB 145 Watts
Difference: 37 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5770 should in theory be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTS 250 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 250 512MB 70400 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 512MB should be quite a bit (more or less 39%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13232 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 will be a small bit (approximately 15%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTS 250 512MB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 250 512MB 11808 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1792 (15%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 250 512MB Radeon HD 5770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 3, 2009 October 13, 2009
Code Name G92a/b Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 76800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 34000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 13600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTS 250 512MB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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