AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+420%
5.733 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250XE
1.101 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Aug 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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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
10
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
640
176
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
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-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.76 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.40 GTexel/s
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5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1101 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
68.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
80W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Cape Verde
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
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
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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6.3
Shader Model
5.1
