AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM and AMD Radeon R9 280X 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 280X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1000 MHz
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 250 Watt

Boost clock speed	1050 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280X

5.1x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
5.1x better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 806.4 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 384
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops vs 806.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280X

Name	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 280X
PassMark - G3D Mark		6172
PassMark - G2D Mark		679
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		89.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1434.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		7.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		87.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		493.57
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 280X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Oland	Tahiti
Launch date	8 October 2013	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	394
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	806.4 gflops	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	2048
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	4,313 million
Stream Processors		2048
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	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		275 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	73.6 GB / s	288 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 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)