GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1150 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 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 550 Ti		1897 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 61 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 51 Watts (78%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is 34% quicker than the Radeon R7 250 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 24896 (34%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a small bit (about 20%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is quite a bit (about 170%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (170%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.