Radeon R7 250E vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (55W vs 195W)
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 250E
819
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
+296%
3250
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Apr 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1006 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1058 MHz
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
192.3GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
512
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
12.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.86 GPixel/s
25.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.4 GTexel/s
819.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.250 TFLOPS
51.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
55W
TDP
195W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cape Verde
GPU Name
GK104
Cape Verde PRO
GPU Variant
GK104-400-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1