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Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 250
IntroThe Radeon R7 240 has core clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250, which has GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.
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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250 should be 156% faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R7 250 will be quite a bit (approximately 64%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.
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2 Responses to “Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 250”I'm purchasing the AMD A10-7850K APU. This APU can support the R7 240 or 250, however I was unclear which one to choose because it was tough to find real good data on the two GPU's whit side by side comparisons. The information provided in this site spelled out the differences to a novice like me so I could understand the differences between them and improved my knowledge. Thanks!
I have to say I am impressed by the 7850k by itself. Obviously with the R7 250 it will perform even better. I get around 30-50 on High details for most games. I heard that with BF4 that it gets around 40 with crossfire, which is awesome to say the least.