AMD Radeon R7 250X vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250X

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP +73%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

14

-

640

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

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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