AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +50%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GM206

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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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