NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +102%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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