AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM and AMD Radeon R9 270X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 180 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 180 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

3.3x more texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
3.3x better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 806.4 gflops

Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,688 gflops vs 806.4 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

Name	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 270X
PassMark - G3D Mark		4870
PassMark - G2D Mark		612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1772

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Oland	Curacao
Launch date	8 October 2013	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	453
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$399
Value for money (0-100)		16.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	806.4 gflops	2,688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1280
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	180 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	2,800 million
Stream Processors		1280
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2 x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	73.6 GB / s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)