AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 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 and 1 months late

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 106W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +19%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450

0.601 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 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

902 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF106

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

238 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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