Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R9 255 OEM

Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R9 255 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R9 255 OEM

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R9 255 OEM
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde PRX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs512
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock1000 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R9 255 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250Radeon R9 255 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    14.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    921.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better