Radeon RX 490M vs R7 250E

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking665not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.14no data
Power efficiency5.73no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameCape VerdePolaris
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 December 2013 (10 years ago)1 August 2016 (8 years 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 cores512no data
Core clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.60no data
Floating-point processing power0.8192 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs32no data

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 datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1125 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth72 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 December 2013 1 August 2016
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

RX 490M has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250E and Radeon RX 490M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 250E is a desktop card while Radeon RX 490M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 250E
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