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 clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1150 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 960 will be 52% quicker than the Radeon R7 250 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a lot (more or less 201%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.