NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +26%

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

332 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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