AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 250 AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM +230%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

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

29.60 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Curacao

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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