Radeon R9 255 OEM vs Radeon R7 250X

Radeon R9 255 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R9 255 OEM
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 255 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 255 OEMRadeon R7 250X
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde PRX)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders512vs640
Compute Units8vs10
Core clock900 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 255 OEMRadeon R7 250X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 255 OEMRadeon R7 250X
TDP65 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date21 Dec 2013vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    14.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    28.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    73.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    921.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better