AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +679%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

640

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G94B

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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