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GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ comes with clock speeds of 738 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which features core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 95 Watts
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 145 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 250X 2GB should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce 9800 GTX+ overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 70400 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be a small bit (more or less 18%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7232 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB is a lot (more or less 36%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 9800 GTX+, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 11808 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4192 (36%)

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 9800 GTX+ Radeon R7 250X 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 February 2014
Code Name G92b Cape Verde XT
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 640
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 1500 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GTX+

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Radeon R7 250X 2GB

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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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