GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon R9 285X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTS 250
387
Radeon R9 285X
+960%
4104
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
16
SM Count
-
128
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.23 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.06 GPixel/s
44.93 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.3 GTexel/s
387.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.104 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
200W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
Tonga
G92-428-B1
GPU Variant
Tonga XT
(215-0851313)
(215-0851313)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
5 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
