ATI Radeon HD 4550 vs AMD Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 55W)
AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)
432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4550
0.096 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250
+646%
0.717 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2008
Release Date
Oct 2013
Radeon R700
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
655 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.48GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
1
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
80
Shading Units
512
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
96.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
55W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV710
GPU Name
Cape Verde
RV710
(215-0725016)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.242 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
73 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
