GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 240 OEM

100 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 ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 240 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 240 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsOland ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders128vs320
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock702 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP150 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better