NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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$ 284.17

$ 100.01

$ 184.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

1398% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

837% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10280 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

755% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8744 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

844% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9476 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

975% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8020 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

499% 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

360 GB/s

400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

75 W

126% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

476% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

572% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

599% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% 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

98th of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R7 250 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 250 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3060 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 RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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, the Radeon R7 250 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Radeon R7 250.