NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon R9 390

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 +1222%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon R9 390

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Grenada

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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