AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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AMD Radeon R7 250X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 3 months late

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +30%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

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GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF110

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GF110-375-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

Board Design

80W

TDP

244W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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