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Radeon R7 250X 2GB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB features a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 95 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 150 Watts
Difference: 55 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 222912 (310%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (approximately 340%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 136000 (340%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (about 450%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 72000 (450%)

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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Specifications

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Model Radeon R7 250X 2GB Radeon RX 5600
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year February 2014 January 2020
Code Name Cape Verde XT Navi 10 XE
Memory 2048 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 4500 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 72000 MB/sec 294912 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40000 Mtexels/sec 176000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16000 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 2048
Texture Mapping Units 40 128
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 1500 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R7 250X 2GB

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