GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon HD 8730 OEM Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

Radeon HD 8730 OEM +58%

614

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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