NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 250

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 100.01

$ 106.46 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

313% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

31 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10280 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8744 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9476 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8020 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

200% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

125% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

49% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R7 250 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti beats the Radeon R7 250 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and the Radeon R7 250 have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti over the Radeon R7 250.