NVIDIA · Tesla (derived from codename prefix) · 2009

GeForce GTS 250

Memory1 GB15 of 290 in GeForce
Power150 W5 of 243 by higher draw in GeForce
Shaders12812 of 146 in GeForce
Launch price$19967 of 161 in GeForce

Silicon, made visible

Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.

260 mm² die · 128 shadersDie area drawn to scale against the catalog maximum of 1,540 square millimeters. Each dot = 1 shader.260 mm² die · 128 shadersEach dot = 1 shaderDashed frame = largest catalog die (1,540 mm²)

Specifications

Memory

Capacity
1 GB
Type
GDDR3
Bus width
256 bit
Memory clock
1,008 MHz
Bandwidth
64.5 GB/s

Compute

Shaders
128
SM count
16
TMUs
64
ROPs
16
FP32
414.72 GFLOPS
Pixel fill rate
10.8 GP/s
Texture fill rate
43.2 GT/s

Clocks

Base clock
675 MHz

Board

TDP
150 W
Bus interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
External power required
Yes
Form factor
desktop
Launch MSRP
199 USD

Physical

Architecture
Tesla (derived from codename prefix)
Codename
G92-426-B1
Process
55 nm
Transistors
754 million
Die size
260 mm²
Series
GeForce
Launch date
March 4, 2009

Not recorded by the source: generation, boost clock and fp64.

Catalog context

Within its series, the GeForce GTS 250 ranks 7th of 50 for FP32 throughput and 15th of 290 for memory capacity. Its 150 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.

Source: Wikipedia, revision 1369488585 · catalog loaded 2026-08-16