AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +359%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G94B

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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