AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +34%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Jul 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

640

Shading Units

336

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF104

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

332 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

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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