AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 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 380 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380 +798%

3.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

128

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

108.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

3.476 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.476 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

217.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

G92B

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 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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