GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost vs Radeon R7 250X

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2013
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    144%
  • Radeon R7 250X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

Around 44% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 250X

54 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon R7 250X
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-240-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders768vs640
Compute Units4vs10
Core clock980 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs64vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon R7 250X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon R7 250X
TDP134 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2013vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    15.70 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    62.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    1505.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    5800
  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020

Points (higher is better)