AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 250

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 100.01

$ 388.32 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

1432% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

7 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

591% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10280 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

549% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8744 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

726% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9476 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

993% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8020 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

81% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

522% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

75 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

723% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

929% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

400% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R7 250 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5700 XT beats the Radeon R7 250 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 250 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the Radeon R7 250.