AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250 AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +26%

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

6

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Lexa

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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