GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
Radeon R9 295X2 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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTS 250
387
Radeon R9 295X2
+1381%
5733
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
16
SM Count
-
128
Shading Units
2816
64
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.23 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
44.93 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
387.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
Vesuvius
G92-428-B1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
(215-0852022)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
438 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
