XFX Radeon R7 250 Core Edition Video Card Review

Posted By Rafael Coelho on Apr 24, 2014 in Video

Introduction

Let’s analyze the Radeon R7 250 Core Edition (R7-250A-ZLF4) from the traditional manufacturer XFX, a low profile video card with 1 GiB of GDDR5 memory that competes with the GeForce GT 640 GPU from NVIDIA.

The Radeon R7 250 is a rebranded Radeon HD 8670 chip, although according to AMD, the HD 8670 is compatible with DirectX 11.1 and the R7 250 is DirectX 11.2.

It is important to notice that there are video cards based on the Radeon R7 250 GPU using DDR3 memory running at 1.8 GHz (providing a 28.8 GB/s bandwidth).

The Radeon R7 250 uses the PCI Express 3.0 interface, while its main competitor uses the PCI Express 2.0 interface. Although the chip supports PCI Express 3.0 x16, the video card we tested offers only half of the supported lanes and, therefore, it is a PCI Express 3.0 x8 card.

In the table below, we compare the main specifications for the video cards included in our review. The prices were researched at Newegg.com on the day we published this review and do not include rebates.

Video Card	Core Clock	Shader Clock	Memory Clock (Effective)	Memory Interface	Memory Transfer Rate	Memory	Shaders	DirectX	Price
Radeon R7 250	1,050 MHz	1,050 MHz	4.6 GHz	128-bit	73.6 GB/s	1 GiB GDDR5	384	11.2	USD 100.00
GeForce GT 640	900 MHz	1,800 MHz	1.6 GHz	128-bit	25.6 GB/s	2 GiB DDR3	384	11.0	USD 100.00
Radeon R7 240	780 MHz	780 MHz	1.8 GHz	128-bit	28.8 GB/s	2 GiB DDR3	320	11.2	USD 70.00
GeForce GT 630	810 MHz	1,620 MHz	1.33 GHz	128-bit	21.3 GB/s	1 GiB DDR3	96	11.0	USD 70.00

You can compare the specs of these video cards with other video cards by taking a look at our “AMD ATI Chips Comparison Table” and “NVIDIA Chips Comparison Table” tutorials.

Now let’s take an in-depth look at the XFX Radeon R7 250 Core Edition.

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