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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 's Advantages

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

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

424 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +126%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Sep 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

GT200

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G200-103-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

182W

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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