Thursday, February 6th 2014
AMD Readies Radeon R7 250X to Seal the Gap Between R7 250 and R7 260X
AMD is working on a new SKU to seal the price-performance gap between the Radeon R7 250 and the R7 260. Called the Radeon R7 250X, the chip is said to be based on the 28 nm "Oland" silicon, and could feature a stream processor count of 640, with 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 1 GB or 2 GB of memory. The GPU is said to be clocked around 1.00 GHz, and memory around 4.50 GHz (72 GB/s). VideoCardz scored pictures of two of the first R7 250X graphics cards, branded by Sapphire and ASUS. AMD will slip the R7 250X into the channel rather quietly. It's already showing up on European retailers for around €90 (incl. VAT).
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13 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon R7 250X to Seal the Gap Between R7 250 and R7 260X
AMD Readies Radeon R7 250X out of fear of the new GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750
+ $160 for HDD and blu-ray drive = $600 or less for a pc that is damn close to an xbox one especially with mantle.
not bad
R7 250X = 7850K iGPU + 128 cores...
So... !?
Anyway, I would have much liked a new card with 512 GCN 1.1 cores, 1-2GB 64bit @ 5GHz+ GDDR5, 720 to 1100MHz core clock, that would be more or less advertised and specifically enhanced in the drivers to work with a the (soon the release) A10-7800 and A10-7850K... AND and be a low-profile card AS REFERENCE But it seems AMD doesn't want to grasp the idea of having proper dual-graphics/hybrid CF soulutions...
I imagine such a setup (+ proper RAM and a good mATX/mITX board) would make a beastly HTPC/gaming box/SteamMachine, on the cheap. Yeah, but the memory clock doesn't make much sense, it has almost twice the cores as R7 250 but 100MHz/1,2GB/s slower memory... WAT. Straight up rebrand?