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GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTX comes with core speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 768 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 250X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X 95 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTX 155 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 8800 GTX should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 86400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 14400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X is a little bit (about 9%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8800 GTX. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX 36800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3200 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250X is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX 13800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2200 (16%)

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 GTX Radeon R7 250X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Nov 2006 February 2014
Code Name G80 Cape Verde XT
Memory 768 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 575 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 155 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 86400 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36800 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13800 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 640
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 28 nm
Transistors 681 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

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. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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

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GeForce 8800 GTX

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Radeon R7 250X

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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.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon R7 250X”
Anonymous says:

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