NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X +212%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

128

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Lexa

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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