GeForce GTS 250 vs Radeon R7 250

GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 250

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 250 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTS 250Radeon R7 250
GPU NameG92B (G92-428-B1)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders128vs384
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock702 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTS 250Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTS 250Radeon R7 250
TDP150 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2009vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better