AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 74% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 574 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
9.2x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 600 Watt
Around 53% higher memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 3000 MHz

Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 25 July 2011
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 574 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 600 Watt
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz vs 3000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

9.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 25.2 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 2x 512 vs 384
2.9x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,175.6 gflops vs 806.4 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 2x 6 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 25.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 512 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2x 1,175.6 gflops vs 806.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 6 GB vs 2 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Oland	GF100
Launch date	8 October 2013	25 July 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$14,999
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	574 MHz
Floating-point performance	806.4 gflops	2x 1,175.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	2x 512
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	600 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	4x DVI, 2x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Length		522 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 6 GB
Memory bandwidth	73.6 GB / s	2x 144.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz	3000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5