GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB has a core clock frequency of 738 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1100 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It is comprised of 128 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, which features clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 1150 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 720(144x5) SPUs as well as 36 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTS 250 1GB	Radeon HD 5750 1GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	March 3, 2009	October 13, 2009
Code Name	G92a/b	Juniper LE
Fab Process	65/55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe 2.1 x16
Memory	1024 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	738 MHz	700 MHz
Shader Speed	1836 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	1100 MHz	1150 MHz
Unified Shaders	128	720(144x5)
Texture Mapping Units	64	36
Render Output Units	16	16
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	128-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 3.2
Power (Max TDP)	145 watts	86 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	70400 MB/sec	73600 MB/sec
Texel Rate	47232 Mtexels/sec	25200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	11808 Mpixels/sec	11200 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.