Radeon HD 3870 X2 and Radeon R7 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs Radeon R7 250
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
Radeon R7 250
1100
Radeon HD 3870 X2
Radeon R7 250
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
R680
Oland XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
825 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 gflops
716.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
384
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.20
25.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1802 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.66 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-