AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Price

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$ 100.01

$ 29.94 slightly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

695 points

97% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS

10 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

8 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points

10713 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8744 points

10201 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points

9924 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8020 points

9415 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

1228 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1468 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

30 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

23.49 Gigapixels/s

58% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

35.23 Gigatexels/s

19% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586

291st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 250 vs GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 250 in our tests.

The GeForce GT 1030 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 GT 1030 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon R7 250 at 75 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 GT 1030 over the Radeon R7 250.