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.

 

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 6171
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)

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