AMD Radeon R7 370 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare AMD Radeon R7 370 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

742 points

15% slightly better overall score

640 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1505 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1039 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23431 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24521 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22055 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19292 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz

937 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

1038 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

2 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

2302% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

10 W

1399% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.2 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigatexels/s

150% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

166% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

288th of 586

302nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 370 vs GeForce MX250 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 370 GPU is faster than the GeForce MX250 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX250 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 MX250 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the Radeon R7 370 at 150 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 Radeon R7 370 over the GeForce MX250.