AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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AMD Radeon R7 250 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +594%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GM204

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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