GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R7 250

CORE STATE Cape Verde

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 55 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 560

CORE STATE Polaris 21

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1275 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

7,557

16,234

geekbench_metal

N/A

23,597

passmark_directx_10

N/A

16

passmark_directx_11

N/A

25

passmark_directx_12

N/A

21

passmark_directx_9

N/A

57

passmark_g2d

N/A

485

passmark_g3d

N/A

3,671

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

1,437

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R7 250

RX 560

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

1,024 +100.0%

Shaders

512

1,024 +100.0%

TMUs

32

64 +100.0%

ROPs

16

16 0.0%

Compute Units

8

16 +100.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1275 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

4,096 +300.0%

Memory Type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

28.80 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

256 KB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

20.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

29.60 GTexel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

59.20 GFLOPS (1:16)

163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

55 W

75 W

TDP (W)

55

75 +36.4%

Suggested PSU

250 W

250 W

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GCN 4.0

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Polaris 21

Generation

Volcanic Islands (R7 200)

Polaris (RX 500)

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

1,500 million

3,000 million

Die Size

123 mm²

123 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

GlobalFoundries

Density

12.2M / mm²

24.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.7

Physical

Slot Width

Single-slot

Dual-slot

Length

168 mm 6.6 inches

170 mm 6.7 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

—

99 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Sea Islands

Arctic Islands

Successor

Pirate Islands

Vega

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