GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1150 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units 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 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 5791 (315%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (85%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 960 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (52%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be much (about 201%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48128 (201%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Radeon R7 250, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28064 (351%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.