GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 250XE

GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
Radeon R7 250XE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Aug 2014
Radeon R7 250XE
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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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 250XE

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 250XE
GPU NameGK106 ()vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock1058 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250XE
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250XE
TDP65 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date27 Nov 2013vs21 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    13.76 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    34.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    1100.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better