Specs of GTS250

[notguru]

What exactly determines how this card performs? Many people say the GTX 260 is much better than the GTS 250, even though the 250 has a faster texture fillrate and faster clocks (ie: core, shader, and memory clocks) than the 260? And the 260 has is a slightly better pixel fillrate and a faster bandwidth. Does this account for the difference?

What else is there? Does bus width or number of transistors affect a GPU (because the 260 has almost double the transistors)? How does Bandwidth affect a GPU?

Would you say that the 250 is smoother, but the 260 can achieve higher graphics? Or have I misinterpreted the specs? I'm truly confused.

 

[turboflame]

The main difference is that the GTX260 has 216 shaders vs. 128 in the GTS250 and a 448 bit bus vs a 256 bit bus.

Ultimately though benchmarks are all that matter, if you randomly compare arbitrary specs you won't get anywhere.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-charts-2009/benchmarks,54.html

 

[invisik]

^+1
Clocks might be slow but it can process more in one cycle.