Radeon R7 250X and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon R7 250X
2336
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon R7 250X
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2014
November 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,216 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
80 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.00
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
+
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-