GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 250

GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 650
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250
GPU NameGK107 (GK107-450-A2)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock1058 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250
TDP65 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better