AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

296 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 '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 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

512

Shading Units

216

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

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

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

171W

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 Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GT200B

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

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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