GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon HD 6290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 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 12.80GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Radeon HD 6290 Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250 +272%

387

Radeon HD 6290

104

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cedar

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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