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GeForce GTX 965M vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

The GeForce GTX 965M has a core clock frequency of 944 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 250, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1150 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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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 965M 5650 points
Radeon R7 250 1836 points
Difference: 3814 (208%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M 60 Watts
Radeon R7 250 65 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 250 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 965M overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250 73600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (15%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M should be much (approximately 152%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 60416 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 36416 (152%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M is a lot (approximately 278%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 30208 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 22208 (278%)

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 GTX 965M Radeon R7 250
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 5 2015 October 2013
Code Name GM204 Oland XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 944 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 65 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 73600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 60416 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 30208 Mpixels/sec 8000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 384
Texture Mapping Units 64 24
Render Output Units 32 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 1040 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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number 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 higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 965M

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