Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R7 250X

Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 250
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250X
    146%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 46% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250X

The Radeon R7 250X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 250X
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock1000 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 250X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 250X
TDP65 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 250
    2740
  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020

Points (higher is better)