AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +11%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

GeForce GTX 560

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

336

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.34 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.36 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

90.72 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF114

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GF114-325-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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