Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R7 250X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+371%
5733
Radeon R7 250X
1216
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Feb 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
10
2816
Shading Units
640
176
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
15.20 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.00 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1216 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
80W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Cape Verde
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
