AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 105W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +171%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

384MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

105W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G92

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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