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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) comes with a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 970 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 128 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1150 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250 65 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 135 Watts
Difference: 70 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 250 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 250 73600 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Difference: 11520 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be much (about 73%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 17600 (73%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (30%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) Radeon R7 250
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 October 2013
Code Name G92 Oland XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 4600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts 65 watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 73600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 8000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 384
Texture Mapping Units 64 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record 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 - 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)

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Radeon R7 250

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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