AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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AMD Radeon R7 250 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

296 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +33%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

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

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

216

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GT200

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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