Radeon HD 4250 vs 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4250 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV620 (RV620 LE) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 181 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 40 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 594 MHz | vs | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 4 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4250 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 396 MHz
792 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4250 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| TDP | 25 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Feb 2009 | vs | 27 Nov 2013 |
Radeon HD 4250
2.38 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650
8.46 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4250
2.38 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650
33.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4250
6.34 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4250
47.52 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650
812.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better