AMD unleashes the R7 250X

AMD unleashes the R7 250X to an eager audience. As far as entry-level gaming cards are concerned there are many people who simply cannot afford the greatest that technology has to offer. Now AMD has officially released their new R7 250X, a card that will sit perfectly between the R7 250/R7 260 and make a host of AMD fans jump for joy. The thing is the card really offers nothing new as it is essentially just a rebranded HD 7770, but it does a have lower price point at the $99 making it highly affordable.

From the various reports that have been leaked it seems as if the R7 250X performs identically to the aging HD 7770. There are some minor technical difference the main one being support for “Mantle” however TrueAudio is not, but that was laid out clearly by AMD prior to the mantle launch. Only the extreme high-end cards will come with the TrueAudio option. Based on the “Cape Verde” chipset the card sports 640 stream processors, 40 texture units, 16 ROPs and a core clock of 1000 MHz. As far as memory goes we will see 1 or 2 GB of GDDR5 running at an effective clock speed of 4.5 GHz on a 128-bit bus.

It also has more power consumption than its brother, the Radeon R7 250X consumes up to 95W of power and so requires power input through a PCIe port. The main competitor for AMD’s R7 250X at this level is NVIDIA’s GTX 650, but it looks like the 650X performs a bit better. If you want to save yourself an additional $10 you can always buy the r& 250, but it is quite a bit slower than the 250X. For a few more bucks ($20-40) you can move up the AMD food chain and get yourself a R7 260/260X or an NVIDIA GTX 650 Ti. By the time you read this, the card will be on sale at many of the retail and e-tail stores for you to get a hold of if you so desire. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow.