AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 6250

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2224 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +5509%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6250

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 6250

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Arctic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

2

2304

Shading Units

80

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cedar

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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