AMD Radeon R7 250X vs ATI FireGL V8650

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

320 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +176%

1.216 TFLOPS

FireGL V8650

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

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FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Aug 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

4

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

R600

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

R600 V8650 (215RGIDKA13FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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