AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 55W)

Score

Radeon R7 250

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2006

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

NV43

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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