GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1150 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 61 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 51 Watts (78%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 250 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 24896 (34%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a bit (approximately 20%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is much (about 170%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 250, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (170%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.