Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon R9 FURY

Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X
Radeon R9 FURY
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2015
Radeon R9 FURY

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 250X
    100%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    449%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X

195 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 FURY .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 FURY

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 349% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 FURY

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 FURY

The Radeon R9 FURY is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250XRadeon R9 FURY
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)vsFiji (Fiji PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs8,900 million
Shaders640vs3584
Compute Units10vs56
Core clock950 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs40vs224

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250XRadeon R9 FURY
Memory TypeGDDR5vsHBM
Bus Width128 bitvs4096 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250XRadeon R9 FURY
TDP80 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2014vs10 Jul 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    224.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    7168.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    18070

Points (higher is better)