Radeon R7 250E and GeForce3 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 250E

GeForce3

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Kelvin (2001−2003)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

NV20 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2013

February 2001

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

800 MHz

200 MHz

Floating-point performance

819.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

57 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

-

Power consumption (TDP)

55 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

25.60

1.600

Memory type

GDDR5

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

230 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

3.68 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x VGA, 1x DB13W3

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (11_1)

8.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A