AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 7 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590 +73%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF110

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GF110-351-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

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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