AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points
72% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

9 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8744 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8039 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8020 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
7006 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz
2% slightly higher boost clock speed
1024 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
4 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s
49% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s
80% significantly higher pixel rate
8.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s
20% slightly higher texture rate
24.58 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586
429th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
-

Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon 530 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R7 250 graphics card is better than the Radeon 530 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon 530 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 250 over the Radeon 530.

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