AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +166%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

49W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF108

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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