GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 250X, which has core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 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 1060		12359 points
Radeon R7 250X		2860 points
	Difference: 9499 (332%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 124608 (173%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (more or less 201%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 80480 (201%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (about 352%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56288 (352%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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