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Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

The Radeon R7 250 features a GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features a core clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250 65 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Difference: 95 Watts (146%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT will be 367% quicker than the Radeon R7 250 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250 73600 MB/sec
Difference: 270464 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (about 725%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 174000 (725%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 1000%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 250, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250 8000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 80000 (1000%)

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 RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 January 2020
Code Name Oland XT Navi 10 XLE
Memory 1024 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 4600 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 73600 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24000 Mtexels/sec 198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8000 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 2304
Texture Mapping Units 24 144
Render Output Units 8 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 1040 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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

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Radeon R7 250

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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