AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X +610%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

32

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

Board Design

55W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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