In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition are significantly better than the AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB.

The R7 250 has a 72 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti, but the GTX 650 Ti has 40 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 250. As a result, the GTX 650 Ti exhibits a 35.4 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R7 250. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 250 has a 72 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti, but the GTX 650 Ti has 8 more Render Output Units than the R7 250. As a result, the GTX 650 Ti exhibits a 6.8 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 250. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 250 was released over a year more recently than the GTX 650 Ti, and so the R7 250 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 650 Ti.

The Radeon R7 250 1GB and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GTX 650 Ti has 12.8 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 250, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 650 Ti is slightly better than the R7 250.

The Radeon R7 250 1GB has 384 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition has 768. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 250 is 343 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 650 Ti is 713. The GTX 650 Ti having 370 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 650 Ti delivers a noticeably smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 250.

The Radeon R7 250 1GB requires 65 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Gainward 1GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 250.