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GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs GeForce GTX 460

Intro

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB comes with a GPU core clock speed of 738 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 1100 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 128 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 460, which features GPU core speed of 675 MHz, and 768 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 336 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 145 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 150 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 should be much faster than the GeForce GTS 250 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 86400 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB 70400 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB will be much (more or less 25%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 47232 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9432 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is superior to the GeForce GTS 250 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 16200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB 11808 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4392 (37%)

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 1GB GeForce GTX 460
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 3, 2009 July 2010
Code Name G92a/b GF104
Memory 1024 MB 768 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 675 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 86400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 37800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 16200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 336
Texture Mapping Units 64 56
Render Output Units 16 24
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Comments

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[...] between the GTS 250 and the GTX 460. The GTX 460 obviously comes out on top but by how far? GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs GeForce GTX 460 – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare I would also look into the GTX 560 1GB 256bit model, it's about twice as fast as the GTX 460 and [...]

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