AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and AMD Radeon R7 250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RX Vega 6

AMD Radeon R7 250

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1050 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 283

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 8 October 2013
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 283

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1051 vs 1015

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1051 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 250

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

283

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

1051

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R7 250
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	283
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	1051
Geekbench - OpenCL		7525
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		20.161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		304.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.046
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		96.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R7 250
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Oland
Launch date	7 January 2018	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	482	1087
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$89
Price now		$78.34
Value for money (0-100)		27.62
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		716.8 gflops
Pipelines		384
Stream Processors		384
Texture fill rate		22.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		N / A
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		72 GB/s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1150 MHz
Memory type		DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync