GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250, which features a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1150 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation 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 460		2557 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 721 (39%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 460 should be a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 is quite a bit (about 58%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13800 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is superior to the Radeon R7 250, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8200 (103%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.