Radeon R7 250E vs GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated670
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data1.27
Power efficiencyno data5.46
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTU106BCape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 June 2020 (4 years ago)20 December 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$109

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304512
Core clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,800 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt55 Watt
Texture fill rate162.025.60
Floating-point processing power5.184 TFLOPS0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs14432
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/s72 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.55.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 June 2020 20 December 2013
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 55 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

R7 250E, on the other hand, has 109.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon R7 250E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon R7 250E is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh
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