AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon R7 250E

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD Radeon R7 250E

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +587%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250E

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

Radeon R7 250E

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

8

-

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

55W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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