AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 480

Price

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$ 100.01

$ 1568.97 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

2142 points

508% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS

44 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

33 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS

45 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

17 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points

44522 points

333% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8744 points

48947 points

459% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points

42732 points

350% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8020 points

49182 points

513% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

1266 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1266 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

224 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

40.51 Gigapixels/s

173% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

515% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

2304

350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

350% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon RX 480 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 480 beats the Radeon R7 250 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 250 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 480 is better than the Radeon R7 250.