Radeon R5 M250 vs RX Vega 3

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking778not rated
Place by popularity80not in top-100
Power efficiency13.85no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code namePicassoJet
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

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 cores192320
Core clock speed300 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed1001 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.0114.00
Floating-point processing power0.3844 TFLOPS0.448 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1220

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1800 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.46.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

RX Vega 3 has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 3 and Radeon R5 M250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 3 is a notebook card while Radeon R5 M250 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
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