Radeon R7 250X and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 250X
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
February 2014
April 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
-
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,216 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
6
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
38.00
6.900
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
-
1.1.80
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-