NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

424 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +126%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

216

Shading Units

640

72

TMUs

40

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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