NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +879%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

New Zealand

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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