ATI Radeon 9250 vs VII

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	121	1573
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	18.50	no data
Power efficiency	9.97	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	Vega 20	RV280
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	7 February 2019 (6 years ago)	1 March 2004 (21 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores	3840	no data
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	240 MHz
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,230 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	295 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	420.0	0.96
Floating-point processing power	13.44 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	4
TMUs	240	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	280 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None

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 type	HBM2	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	3.2 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	8.1
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
OpenCL	2.1	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	120	no data
1440p	74	no data
4K	57	no data

Cost per frame, $

1080p	5.83	no data
1440p	9.45	no data
4K	12.26	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 February 2019	1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	7 nm	150 nm

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