GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1150 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1080		21942 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 20106 (1095%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (177%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 254080 (345%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be much (more or less 971%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 233120 (971%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is superior to the Radeon R7 250, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 94848 (1186%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest 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 interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that 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 number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 reach the max fill rate.