AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250

0.717 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +892%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

36

-

512

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 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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