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Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

The Radeon R7 250 has a GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 250X 2860 points
Radeon R7 250 1836 points
Difference: 1024 (56%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250 65 Watts
Radeon R7 250X 95 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 250, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 250X overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250 73600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X will be quite a bit (more or less 67%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16000 (67%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X should be quite a bit (more or less 100%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8000 (100%)

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 250 Radeon R7 250X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 February 2014
Code Name Oland XT Cape Verde XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 4600 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 73600 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24000 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8000 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 640
Texture Mapping Units 24 40
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1040 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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