GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250X, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 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 1080		21942 points
Radeon R7 250X		2860 points
	Difference: 19082 (667%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (89%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1080 is 355% quicker than the Radeon R7 250X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 255680 (355%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be quite a bit (more or less 543%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 217120 (543%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is superior to the Radeon R7 250X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 86848 (543%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.