AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +19%

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 430 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

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Radeon R5 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

36.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

6

512

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Oland

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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