Radeon HD 7540D IGP vs R7 250

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking793not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency3.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameOlandScrapper
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)2 October 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$89 $67

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 cores384192
Core clock speedno data760 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate25.209.120
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS0.2918 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs2412

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 x8IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsN/Ano data

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 VGANo outputs
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® 1211.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 2 October 2012
Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 65 Watt

R7 250 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD 7540D IGP, on the other hand, has 15.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250 and Radeon HD 7540D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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