GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250X, which features a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 560 Ti		3466 points
Radeon R7 250X		2860 points
	Difference: 606 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56256 (78%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be much (about 32%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12608 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 64%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 250X, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10304 (64%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.