NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

AMD Radeon HD 6250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +1096%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6250

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

Radeon HD 6250

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

19W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Cedar

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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