GeForce GTX 555 OEM vs Radeon R7 250

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking803not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency2.89no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameOlandGF114
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)14 May 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384288
Core clock speedno data736 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate25.2035.33
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS0.8479 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs2448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm210 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsN/A2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz957 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s91.87 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 14 May 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 150 Watt

R7 250 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250 and GeForce GTX 555 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 250
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