AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, 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
$ 249.94 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points
65% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8744 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8020 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

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
80.19 GB/s
11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
64 W
17% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s
86% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s
31.78 Gigatexels/s
7% 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

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586
418th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 250 vs GeForce GT 740 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R7 250 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 250 is faster than the GeForce GT 740.

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