NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +2623%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

210W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Vega 10

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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