GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 250, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 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 RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 20446 (1114%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 385152 (523%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is much (more or less 746%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 179040 (746%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is much (more or less 1028%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82240 (1028%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.