AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cape Verde GT200B
GPU variant Cape Verde PRO G200-103-B2
Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 1,500 million 1,400 million
Die size 123 mm² 470 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 8th, 2013 Nov 27th, 2008
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Sea Islands GeForce 9
Successor Pirate Islands GeForce 400
Launch price 299 USD
Reviews 137 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 700 MHz 576 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 999 MHz 1998 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1242 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 896 MB
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 448 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 111.9 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 512 216
TMUs 32 72
ROPs 16 28
Compute units 8
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB 224 KB
SM count 27

Performance

Pixel rate 11.20 GPixel/s 16.13 GPixel/s
Texture rate 22.40 GTexel/s 41.47 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 716.8 GFLOPS 536.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 44.80 GFLOPS (1:16) 67.07 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 55 W 171 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Board number P897

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.1 4.0
CUDA 1.3

Other Features

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