NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

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

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE +130%

1.101 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

-

Compute Units

10

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G200-100-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

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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