AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1471MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (55W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56
+1370%
10.54 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250
0.717 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX Vega 56
+1109%
6783
Radeon R7 250
561
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Oct 2013
Vega
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1156 MHz
Base Clock
-
1471 MHz
Boost Clock
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
HBM2
Memory Type
DDR3
2048bit
Memory Bus
128bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
3584
Shading Units
512
224
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
94.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
21.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.54 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
55W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Cape Verde
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
