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GeForce GTS 250

GeForce GTS 250
BENCHMARKS (14,881)
MKT (0%)
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Effective Speed -2,307%Effective 3D Speed -2,307%Average Score -2,619%Lighting -2,372%, Reflection -2,036%, MRender -3,504%, Gravity -2,566%Overclocked Score -2,433%Lighting -2,285%, Reflection -1,959%, MRender -3,036%, Gravity -2,452%Value & Sentiment -3,927%User Rating -83%, Market Share -7,770%Nice To Haves -4,067%Parallax -6,595%, Splatting -3,173%, Parallax -6,845%, Splatting -3,408%, Age -316%

Average Bench: 6.99% (359^th of 715)

Based on 14,881 user benchmarks. Device: 10DE 0615 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Poor: 5%Average: 6.99% Great: 8%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 averaged 93.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 9.8fps

Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 7.72fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 is just 2.63%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 11fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 3.67fps

Average Bench

(Based on 14,881 samples)

Rank 3596.99%

Min	Avg	Max
7.43	Lighting 9.8	11.2
4.8	Reflection 11	14.7
2.7	Parallax 3.67	4.3
8% 8.17 fps

Min	Avg	Max
4.3	MRender 7.56	9.3
6.11	Gravity 7.72	8.6
3.32	Splatting 4.2	4.8
5.07% 6.5 fps

User Benchmarks

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The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

BRA-User, 22 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

XFX(1682 2601) 1GB

Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01

7.22% Terrible

Lighting 9.8

Reflection 12.5

Parallax 2.9

8% 8.4 fps

MRender 8.9

Gravity 8.6

Splatting 4.6

6% 7.37 fps

USA-User, 22 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

MSI(1462 1542) 512MB

Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.01

6.85% Terrible

Lighting 9.5

Reflection 11

Parallax 3.6

8% 8.03 fps

MRender 8.3

Gravity 7.5

Splatting 4

5% 6.6 fps

USA-User, 12 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

MSI(1462 1543) 1GB

Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01

6.65% Terrible

Lighting 9.8

Reflection 9.3

Parallax 4

8% 7.7 fps

MRender 5

Gravity 8.3

Splatting 2.5

4% 5.27 fps

ITA-User, 22 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

Asus(1043 8338) 1GB

Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01

6.54% Terrible

Lighting 8.9

Reflection 11.3

Parallax 3.6

7% 7.93 fps

MRender 8

Gravity 7.6

Splatting 4.2

5% 6.6 fps

PHL-User, 22 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

Device(0000 0000) 512MB

Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.01

6.4% Terrible

Lighting 8.8

Reflection 10.9

Parallax 3.3

7% 7.67 fps

MRender 8

Gravity 6.9

Splatting 4

5% 6.3 fps

UZB-User, 22 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

Device(0000 0000) 1GB

Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.44

5.46% Terrible

Lighting 7.4

Reflection 9.4

Parallax 2.6

6% 6.47 fps

MRender 7

Gravity 6

Splatting 3.7

4% 5.57 fps

RUS-User, 22 months ago.GeForce GTS 250

Device(0000 0000) 1GB

Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.00

2.61% Terrible

Lighting 3.6

Reflection 1.5

Parallax 3.3

3% 2.8 fps

MRender 0.8

Gravity 6.7

Splatting 0.4

2% 2.63 fps

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Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Device(0000 0000)	28%	6% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0401)	7%	7% ± 1%
Zotac(19DA 2103)	5%	7% ± 1%
MSI(1462 1543)	5%	7% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 0592)	5%	7% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2601)	4%	7% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 34C7)	4%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82FB)	3%	8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1542)	3%	7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8305)	3%	8% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 34E7)	2%	7% ± 0%
PNY(196E 0593)	2%	7% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 34CB)	2%	8% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0719)	2%	7% ± 1%
Elitegroup(1019 1A0A)	2%	8% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1145)	1%	6% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2600)	1%	7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8339)	1%	7% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1103)	1%	7% ± 1%
Asus(1043 830B)	1%	8% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1150)	1%	8% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 7103)	1%	7% ± 1%
BFG(19F1 0D76)	1%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8345)	1%	7% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 34E9)	1%	6% ± 0%
Device(1B0A 9038)	1%	8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8303)	1%	7% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2605)	1%	7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1151)	1%	8% ± 1%
POV(1ACC 9242)	1%	7% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 0000)	1%	7% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 1141)	1%	7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8338)	1%	7% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000)	1%	7% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 069C)	1%	8% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 5103)	0%	7% ± 1%
POV(1ACC 925C)	0%	6% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2604)	0%	7% ± 0%
Device(107D 2708)	0%	8% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000)	0%	7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1158)	0%	6% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8364)	0%	6% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82DF)	0%	8% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D 8089)	0%	7% ± 0%
PNY(196E 079E)	0%	6% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0DBA)	0%	8% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0752)	0%	7% ± 0%
Device(107D 20DF)	0%	8% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 2003)	0%	7% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 9251)	0%	9% ± 0%

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Workstation 3%

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Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	2,069x
Core i7-2600Intel $130Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,599x
Core i5-3470Intel $99Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	950x

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GeForce GTS 250NvidiaBench 7%, 14,881 samples	1x

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A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	832x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples	458x
A400 480GBKingston $34Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	436x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	521x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	381x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	301x

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GBR-User

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5,828

Excellent

2 years ago.

I brought it for £7 on ebay and it performs better than a gt 730 , a great card for the money

HKG-User

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5,546

Excellent

3 years ago.

Unbelievable frame rate when I tested it in Cinebench r15 for about 41 fps with my i5-4460 CPU. However it's too old to play games in 2020 since my GPU has only 512MB. Considering upgrade to GTX 1060 as well.

RUS-User

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4,804

Good

17 months ago.

I had Zotac GeForce GTS 250 in past, and it was cool time!

POL-User

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4,616

Poor

17 days ago.

to jest bardzo dobra kraciczka

AUS-User

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3,998

Excellent

5 years ago.

Just upgraded to this from an SLI RTX 2080 Ti setup. Best decision of my life. Can easily run BFV on 4k ultra settings with Raytracing turned on with 300+ fps. Highly recommend.

PHL-User

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3,420

Good

2 years ago.

its cheap and out performs the gt 710

PAK-User

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3,380

Good

3 years ago.

Ran everything on my old computer for 7 years

SYC-User

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1,504

Excellent

4 years ago.

I got it in 2010/2011 it was awesome for its time, My PC in my room still uses it, I play all games release 2015 properly but its mainly my media box alternative.

Gamejang

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162

Good

2 years ago.

I don't know that if anyone still use this card, but did a job back at the time.

maitkarro

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Good

11 months ago.

This is a 2009 GPU

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GeForce GTS 250

Average Bench: 6.99% (359th of 715)

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