GeForce FX 5500 vs Radeon R7 250E

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R7 250E and GeForce FX 5500, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R7 250E
2013
1 GB GDDR5, 55 Watt
4.38
+21800%

R7 250E outperforms FX 5500 by a whopping 21800% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking6701488
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.27no data
Power efficiency5.46no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameCape VerdeNV34 B1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 December 2013 (11 years ago)17 March 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 $36.99

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 cores512no data
Core clock speed800 MHz270 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.601.080
Floating-point processing power0.8192 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs324

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 x16AGP 8x
Length168 mm152 mm
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s5.312 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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.38 0.02
Recency 20 December 2013 17 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

R7 250E has a 21800% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon R7 250E is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce FX 5500 in performance tests.


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