GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 250, which comes with core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1150 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 650 Ti		3434 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 1598 (87%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is 17% faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti is a lot (about 147%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35392 (147%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 86%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 250, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6848 (86%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.