NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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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$ 369.00

$ 100.01

$ 268.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

542% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10280 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

290% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8744 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9476 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8020 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

12% 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

75 W

93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

345% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

313% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

224% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 970 vs Radeon R7 250 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the Radeon R7 250 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly 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 970 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 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 970 at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon R7 250.