AMD Radeon R7 250X vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +114%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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