AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +448%

3.935 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

512

Shading Units

1152

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GP104

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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