Radeon R7 250E vs Vega Frontier Edition

Place in the ranking	149	668
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	19.67	1.14
Power efficiency	7.96	5.54
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 10	Cape Verde
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	27 June 2017 (7 years ago)	20 December 2013 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	$109

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Vega Frontier Edition has 1625% better value for money than R7 250E.

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 cores	4096	512
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	800 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,500 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	55 Watt
Texture fill rate	409.6	25.60
Floating-point processing power	13.11 TFLOPS	0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	16
TMUs	256	32

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	168 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None

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 type	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	945 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	72 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.2.131

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	34.28	4.37
Recency	27 June 2017	20 December 2013
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	55 Watt

Vega Frontier Edition has a 684.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R7 250E, on the other hand, has 445.5% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 250E in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R7 250E is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.