NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

9856 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +2825%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

10496

Shading Units

640

328

TMUs

40

112

ROPs

16

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

80W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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