GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which comes with a clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1150 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation 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 650 Ti		3434 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 1598 (87%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be a lot (more or less 147%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35392 (147%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6848 (86%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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