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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTS 250 sales 4 March 2009 at a recommended price of $199 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 70.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9" (228.6 mm) (22.9 cm). 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.56% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTS 250: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 885 | |
| Value for money | 0.05 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G92B | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 March 2009 (14 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | |
| Current price | $131 (0.7x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce GTS 250's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTS 250's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 128 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 128 | |
| Core clock speed | 738 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 47.2 billion/sec | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 387.1 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTS 250 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 9" (228.6 mm) (22.9 cm) | |
| Height | 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTS 250: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 70.4 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTS 250. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Two Dual Link DVI | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTS 250, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTS 250. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTS 250 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
GeForce GTS 250's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTS 250 is Radeon HD 2900 PRO, which is faster by 3% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTS 250:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTS 250 according to our statistics.
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