AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES +45%

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

512

Shading Units

336

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF114

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

332 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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