GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R7 250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Radeon R7 250 Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

Radeon R7 250 +19%

717

GeForce GTS 450

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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