Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTS 250

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 250 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 250

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTS 250
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsG92B (G92-428-B1)
Fab Process14 nmvs55 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs754 million
Shaders896vs128
Compute Units14vs8
Core clock1090 MHzvs702 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTS 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTS 250
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs4 Mar 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better