RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs Radeon R7 250E

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R7 250E with RTX 4500 Ada Generation, including specs and performance data.

R7 250E
2013
1 GB GDDR5, 55 Watt
4.36

RTX 4500 Ada Generation outperforms R7 250E by a whopping 1672% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking66510
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.13no data
Power efficiency5.5125.59
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCape VerdeAD103
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date20 December 2013 (10 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 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 cores5127680
Core clock speed800 MHz2070 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2580 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt210 Watt
Texture fill rate25.60619.2
Floating-point processing power0.8192 TFLOPS39.63 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs32240
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm245 mm
Width1-slot2-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s432.0 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 DisplayPort4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

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 4.36 77.27
Recency 20 December 2013 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 210 Watt

R7 250E has 281.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 4500 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 1672.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 4500 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 250E in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 250E is a desktop card while RTX 4500 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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