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Graphics card comparison

GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 250

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 650

1024 Mb GDDR5 Released 27 Nov 2013 DESKTOP
GeForce GTX 650
AMD

Radeon R7 250

1024 Mb GDDR5 Released 8 Oct 2013 DESKTOP
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650105%
  • Radeon R7 250100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 650

  • Around 5% 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  • Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the Radeon R7 250

  • 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  • Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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
Our verdict

HWSpot recommends the GeForce GTX 650

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

Specifications

Core configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250
GPU NameGK106 ()Oland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nm28 nm
Die Size221 mm²90 mm²
Transistors2,540 million1,040 million
Shaders384384
Compute Units26
Core clock1058 MHz1000 MHz
ROPs168
TMUs3224

Memory configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5
Bus Width128 bit128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective		1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mb1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 250
TDP65 watts65 watts
Release Date27 Nov 20138 Oct 2013

Raw performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 6508.46 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 2508.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 65033.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 25024.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 65080.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 25073.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 6502880
  • Radeon R7 2502740

Points (higher is better)

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