GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R7 250

CORE STATE Cape Verde

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 55 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

7,557

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R7 250

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

1,664 +225.0%

Shaders

512

1,664 +225.0%

TMUs

32

104 +225.0%

ROPs

16

56 +250.0%

Compute Units

8

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

4,096 +300.0%

Memory Type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

28.80 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

29.60 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

59.20 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

55 W

148 W

TDP (W)

55

148 +169.1%

Suggested PSU

250 W

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GM204

Generation

Volcanic Islands (R7 200)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,500 million

5,200 million

Die Size

123 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Single-slot

Dual-slot

Length

168 mm 6.6 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Sea Islands

GeForce 700

Successor

Pirate Islands

GeForce 10

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