Radeon R7 250E: specs and benchmarks

VS

Aggregate performance score

Radeon R7 250E provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.80% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon R7 250E sales 20 December 2013 at a recommended price of $109. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 72 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 55 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon R7 250E: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking728
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.05
Power efficiency5.59of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameCape Verde
Market segmentDesktop
Release date20 December 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Radeon R7 250E's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R7 250E's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed800 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors1,500 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate25.60of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.8192 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs32of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache128 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R7 250E and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R7 250E: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1125 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth72 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R7 250E. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon R7 250E, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R7 250E. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

R7 250E
3.80

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

R7 250E 1970

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R7 250E is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon R7 250E's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R7 250E is GeForce GTX 460 768MB, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R7 250E:

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R7 250E according to our statistics.

All comparisons with Radeon R7 250E

Community ratings

Here you can see the user rating of the graphics card, as well as rate it yourself.


4 25 votes

Rate Radeon R7 250E on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Comments

Here you can give us your opinion about Radeon R7 250E, agree or disagree with our ratings, or report errors or inaccuracies on the site.