AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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AMD Radeon R7 250

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP +52%

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

8

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

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 HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Baffin

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 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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