AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

57% significantly better overall score

223 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

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 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

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3649 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8744 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8020 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

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

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

64 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

94% significantly higher pixel rate

7.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

30.4 Gigatexels/s

2% 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

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586

412th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 250 vs GeForce GTX 660M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660M GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 250 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 250 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 Radeon R7 250 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 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 GTX 660M over the Radeon R7 250.