GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250, which has GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 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 Titan Black		11666 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 9830 (535%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 262400 (357%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is a lot (about 789%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189360 (789%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the Radeon R7 250, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34672 (433%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.