NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 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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$ 229.39

$ 100.01

$ 129.38 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

937% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

441% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10280 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

483% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8744 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

531% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9476 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

600% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8020 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

478% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

430% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

175% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

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 1660 vs Radeon R7 250 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 250 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 250 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. 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 1660 over the Radeon R7 250.