AMD Radeon R7 250X vs ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Lower TDP (44W vs 80W)

Score

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon X1700 FSC

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

695 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.24GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.348 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.348 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

RV535

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

RV535 FSC

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

131 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

44W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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