AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +1381%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2816

Shading Units

128

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

G92B

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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