GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250X, which comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (205%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 250X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 550899 (765%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be a lot (approximately 656%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 262400 (656%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 135200 (845%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.