Radeon R7 250 OEM vs R5 230

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1209not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.06no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameCaicosOland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)8 October 2013 (11 years ago)

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 cores160384
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1050 MHz
Number of transistors370 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate5.00025.20
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.8064 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

Bus supportPCIe 1.0 x4no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsN/ANone

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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s32 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
​PowerPlay+no data
DDMA audio-no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 April 2014 8 October 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 65 Watt

R5 230 has an age advantage of 5 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 242.1% lower power consumption.

R7 250 OEM, on the other hand, has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 230 and Radeon R7 250 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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