Radeon R7 250 OEM vs RX 570

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking305not rated
Place by popularity22not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.98no data
Power efficiency10.32no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20Oland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)8 October 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048384
Core clock speed1168 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1244 MHz1050 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate159.225.20
Floating-point processing power5.095 TFLOPS0.8064 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs12824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s32 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 8 October 2013
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 65 Watt

RX 570 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R7 250 OEM, on the other hand, has 84.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570 and Radeon R7 250 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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