GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1150 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 16338 (890%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 188544 (256%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be quite a bit (about 653%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 156720 (653%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (about 1105%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 88384 (1105%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 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 better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.