Radeon R7 250E vs UHD Graphics G4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated670
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data1.13
Power efficiencyno data5.48
ArchitectureGeneration 11.0 (2019−2021)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameLakefield GT1Cape Verde
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date28 May 2020 (4 years ago)20 December 2013 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$109

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 cores384512
Core clock speed200 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt55 Watt
Texture fill rate16.0025.60
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs3232

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 x1PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1125 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data72 GB/s
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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.11.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2020 20 December 2013
Chip lithography 10 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 55 Watt

UHD Graphics G4 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 266.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics G4 and Radeon R7 250E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that UHD Graphics G4 is a notebook card while Radeon R7 250E is a desktop one.


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