GeForce GTS 250: specs and benchmarks

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GeForce GTS 250 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.54% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

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 a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTS 250: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking971
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.09
Power efficiency0.71of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG92B
Market segmentDesktop
Release date4 March 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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 cores128of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed738 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors754 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature105 °C
Texture fill rate44.93of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.3871 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs64of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length229 mm
Height4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1100 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth70.4 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsTwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIF

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTS 250, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.0of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/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 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.

GTS 250 1.54

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.

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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.

Closest competitors

GeForce GTS 250's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTS 250 is Radeon HD 7570, which is faster by 3% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTS 250:

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