Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTS 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+1381%
5733
GeForce GTS 250
387
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
2816
Shading Units
128
176
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.23 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.93 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
150W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
G92B
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
G92-428-B1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0