AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +588%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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