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Written by Stuart Thomas on 10 February 2014 at 16:00
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AMD’s R-series branding for Radeon Graphics card received another addition to its line up over the weekend as AMD announced its Radeon R7 250X card.
The card is designed to fill a gap in both price and performance between the Oland-based R7 250 and the more expensive, powerful R7 260.
The Radeon R7 250X Specifications
It’s not exactly revolutionary in design; the card is a Cape Verde GPU used in the 7700 series, and in fact is pretty much a direct reskin of the Radeon HD 7770, which held the $99 spot in the AMD line up previously. The specifications are, as far as we can tell, identical.
In spite of the R7 250X inducing a little deja vu, AMD is no doubt hoping it will boost the lower end of its market after it saw little uptake for the R7 260. The R7 250X is a significant step up performance-wise from the R7 250 at just $10 more expensive. It’s a little more power-hungry than the 250; requiring 95W and an external PCie connector whilst the 250 is a sub-75W card, but since the performance increase is likely to be around 30% for the 250X, this power difference will not matter to many looking to buy a new card for under $100.
As Cape Verde is a GCN 1.0 GPU, it is fairly up to date, with support for DirectX 11.1 and AMD's own Mantle API. However, in terms of features the 250X will show a slight disadvantage when pitched against the GCN 1.1 based 260 series. Cape Verde lacks TrueAudio support among other things, which may give people a reason to pay a little more for the Bonaire 260 series.
What do you think of the Radeon R7 250X filling the $99 AMD spot? How do you feel about AMD's practise of rebranding older cards?
The card is designed to fill a gap in both price and performance between the Oland-based R7 250 and the more expensive, powerful R7 260.
The Radeon R7 250X SpecificationsIn spite of the R7 250X inducing a little deja vu, AMD is no doubt hoping it will boost the lower end of its market after it saw little uptake for the R7 260. The R7 250X is a significant step up performance-wise from the R7 250 at just $10 more expensive. It’s a little more power-hungry than the 250; requiring 95W and an external PCie connector whilst the 250 is a sub-75W card, but since the performance increase is likely to be around 30% for the 250X, this power difference will not matter to many looking to buy a new card for under $100.
As Cape Verde is a GCN 1.0 GPU, it is fairly up to date, with support for DirectX 11.1 and AMD's own Mantle API. However, in terms of features the 250X will show a slight disadvantage when pitched against the GCN 1.1 based 260 series. Cape Verde lacks TrueAudio support among other things, which may give people a reason to pay a little more for the Bonaire 260 series.
What do you think of the Radeon R7 250X filling the $99 AMD spot? How do you feel about AMD's practise of rebranding older cards?
