NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +1590%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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