Radeon Graphics 128SP vs R7 250

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking803not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency2.89no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameOlandRaphael
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)27 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 no data

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 cores384128
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors950 million3,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate25.2017.60
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs248
Ray Tracing Coresno data2

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 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1150 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth72 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 VGAMotherboard Dependent
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 27 September 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 128SP has an age advantage of 8 years, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250 and Radeon Graphics 128SP. We've got no test results to judge.


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