Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 250X
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 650
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 27 Nov 2013
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AMD
Radeon R7 250X
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 13 Feb 2014
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 650100%
- Radeon R7 250X139%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the Radeon R7 250X
- Around 39% higher average synthetic performance.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon R7 250X
The Radeon R7 250X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 650 | Radeon R7 250X |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK106 () | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 221 mm² | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,540 million | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 640 |
| Compute Units | 2 | 10 |
| Core clock | 1058 MHz | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 40 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 650 | Radeon R7 250X |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 650 | Radeon R7 250X |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 27 Nov 2013 | 13 Feb 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 6508.46 GP/s
- Radeon R7 250X15.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 65033.90 GT/s
- Radeon R7 250X38.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 65080.00 GB/s
- Radeon R7 250X72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 650812.50 GFLOPs
- Radeon R7 250X1216.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 6502880
- Radeon R7 250X4020
Points (higher is better)