AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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AMD Radeon R7 250X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

9856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +2825%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Sep 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

82

640

Shading Units

10496

40

TMUs

328

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA102

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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