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GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960M comes with a GPU clock speed of 1096 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which has GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 95 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250X 2GB is 13% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960M in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be just a bit (more or less 10%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3840 (10%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be just a bit (approximately 10%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1536 (10%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960M Radeon R7 250X 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2015 February 2014
Code Name GM107 Cape Verde XT
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1096 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43840 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17536 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 640
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 1500 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960M

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Radeon R7 250X 2GB

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