Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon R7 250X

Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 560

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 560

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 560Radeon R7 250X
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin XT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders1024vs640
Compute Units16vs10
Core clock1090 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs64vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 560Radeon R7 250X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 560Radeon R7 250X
TDP75 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better