Radeon R7 250 and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Oland XT
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
716.8 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.20
20.60
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-