GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1150 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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 960M		4350 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 2514 (137%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 250 should theoretically perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (15%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be much (more or less 83%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19840 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon R7 250, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9536 (119%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.