Radeon RX 5300M vs R7 250 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated415
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.09
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameOlandNavi 14
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)13 November 2019 (4 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 cores3841408
Core clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz1445 MHz
Number of transistors950 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate25.20127.2
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS4.069 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2488

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s168.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 13 November 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 85 Watt

R7 250 OEM has 30.8% lower power consumption.

RX 5300M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250 OEM and Radeon RX 5300M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 250 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX 5300M is a notebook one.


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