AMD Radeon R7 250X vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (80W vs 130W)

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +35%

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Sep 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

8

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

RV790

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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