AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

593 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS

12 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8744 points

8956 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8020 points

11397 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

233% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

2000 MHz

90% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.8 Gigapixels/s

16 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigatexels/s

64 Gigatexels/s

116% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

Identical

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

359th of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon Vega 8 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the Radeon R7 250 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 250 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R7 250 at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 8 is faster than the Radeon R7 250.