Radeon R7 250 and GK208 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 250

GK208

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)

GPU code name

Oland XT

GK208

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

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Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Supplementary power connectors

N/A

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Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

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Floating-point performance

716.8 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

1,020 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

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Texture fill rate

25.20

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Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1150 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

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HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

3.5

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

-

1.2.175

AppAcceleration

+

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

NVENC

-

No Support

PowerTune

-

-

PureVideo HD

-

VP5

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

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