Radeon R7 250 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon R7 250
1100
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Oland XT
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
N/A
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
716.8 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
160
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.20
5.000
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-