Radeon R7 250XE and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon R7 250XE

Switch GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2014

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

860 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,101 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

256

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

34.40

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126