GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 250 Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +756%

3315

GeForce GTS 250

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO

(215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

352 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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