AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R7 250 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +120%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF110

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

244W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 + 1x 8-pin

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

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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