AMD Radeon R7 250 vs ATI Radeon X1550

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 55W)

Score

Radeon R7 250

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

RV516

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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