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GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs GeForce GTX 460
IntroThe GeForce GTS 250 1GB comes with core speeds of 738 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.Compare that to the GeForce GTX 460, which features GPU clock speed of 675 MHz, and 768 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 should be much faster than the GeForce GTS 250 1GB overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTS 250 1GB is quite a bit (more or less 25%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is superior to the GeForce GTS 250 1GB, and very much so. (explain)
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. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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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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One Response to “GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs GeForce GTX 460”[...] 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 [...]