GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250X, which has a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, 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 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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1060 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (approximately 201%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon R7 250X, by far. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.