AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 100.01
$ 8.99 slightly less expensive
$ 109.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points
3811% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Specifications

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

72 GB/s
125% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
50 W
49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s
208% significantly higher pixel rate
4.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s
208% significantly higher texture rate
9.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
1500% significantly more shading units
32

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
100% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586
569th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
3.3

Radeon R7 250 vs GeForce 9500 GT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 250 GPU is faster than the GeForce 9500 GT in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce 9500 GT has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R7 250 at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 250 over the GeForce 9500 GT.

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