AMD Radeon R9 390X vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390X

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X +386%

5.914 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Feb 2014

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

10

-

2816

Shading Units

640

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

80W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs AMD Radeon RX 460

2

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

3

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

4

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

5

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA RTX A4000H

6

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

7

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

8

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

9

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs AMD Radeon PRO W7500

10

AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early