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 1024GB)

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

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

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

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 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

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD FirePro D500

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon Pro V340

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early