GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which features GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 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 950M		3330 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 1494 (81%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41600 (130%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M will be quite a bit (about 52%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12560 (52%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M should be a lot (more or less 83%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6624 (83%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

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