Radeon R7 250E vs Radeon R7 265X OEM

Radeon R7 250E
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 250E
Radeon R7 265X OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Aug 2014
Radeon R7 265X OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250E

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 265X 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 265X OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 265X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 265X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250ERadeon R7 265X OEM
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde PRO)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders512vs1280
Compute Units8vs20
Core clock800 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250ERadeon R7 265X OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250ERadeon R7 265X OEM
TDP55 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date20 Dec 2013vs12 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250E
    12.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250E
    25.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250E
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250E
    819.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265X OEM
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better