AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +379%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Feb 2014

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

10

-

2304

Shading Units

640

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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