Thursday, August 21st 2014
Mysterious AMD Radeon R7 250XE Shows Up
AMD's new entry-level graphics card to counter NVIDIA's GeForce GT 730/740, is the new Radeon R7 250XE, which has been showing up unannounced, in certain Japanese stores. Its reference-design card is pictured below, as having a low-profile, single-slot design. The card is said to be based on a refreshed, energy-efficient variant of the 28 nm "Cape Verde" silicon, featuring 640 stream processors, a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB of memory, and clock speeds of 860 MHz core, and 4.50 GHz memory. The card is being designed to capture the $60-$70 price-point.
Source:
Akiba PC Watch
10 Comments on Mysterious AMD Radeon R7 250XE Shows Up
It would be much more interesting if they did it with Bonaire (896sp) at similar clocks or up to 925/5000, but obviously that must not be practical (it must be close though)....or coming later.
Think similar to what they did with 270 and 150w, and perhaps what they may do with certain Tonga parts at (150?/)225w. I would seriously laugh if AMD could get a ~860-925/4400-5000 1792sp part to fit under 150w (which seems technically possible)..what would be the competition, 750ti?
I like that they are starting to go this route again as options, even if obscure parts. More units @ power efficient clocks/voltage shoe-horned under a certain pci-e spec is always better than any other alternative within that same spec. Last time I remember them really going full bore in the mainstream lineup using that philosophy was 4850, aka probably the best value part ATi (intentionally) made (Thank Dave Bouwman for that one iirc).
ok the fan might be a bit better than the one we have on the R7-250xe ref xD
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There had been some 7750's with the 850Mhz/4800 MHz effective that didn't need 6-pins, so this is all it appears to be. But don't recall any 7750 in Low Profile with OC specs so this is kind of different...