GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 250 Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Radeon 550X 640SP Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

Radeon 550X 640SP +254%

1371

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Lexa

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO

(215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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