Radeon HD 4250 vs GeForce GTX 650

Radeon HD 4250
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Feb 2009
Radeon HD 4250
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4250

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4250GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders40vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock594 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs4vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4250GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed396 MHz
792 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4250GeForce GTX 650
TDP25 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date25 Feb 2009vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4250
    2.38 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4250
    2.38 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4250
    6.34 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4250
    47.52 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better