Radeon R7 (Kaveri) and GeForce GTS 250M - video card comparison
Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
GeForce GTS 250M
Architecture
GCN 1.1 (2014)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Kaveri
N10E-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2014
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Boost clock speed
686 MHz
-
Core clock speed
553 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2410 Million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
16.00
Memory type
-
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
1 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
-
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
12 (FL 12_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
2.1
Shader Model
-
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Power management
-
8.0