Radeon R7 250X and Radeon R3 Graphics - video card comparison

Radeon R7 250X

Radeon R3 Graphics

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

Beema

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2014

January 2015

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

-

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

600 MHz

Core clock speed

-

267 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,216 gflops

153.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

930 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

128

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.00

4.800

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

128 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1625 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.3

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-