Quadro FX 5800 vs Radeon R7 250

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro FX 5800 and Radeon R7 250, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro FX 5800 stacks up against Radeon R7 250, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 5800 Radeon R7 250
Power consumption (TDP) 189 Watt 75 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin N/A
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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  • Quadro FX 5800 has 152% more power consumption, than Radeon R7 250.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R7 250 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Quadro FX 5800 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon R7 250.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R7 250 - with GCN.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 250 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Quadro FX 5800 is 99 mm longer, than Radeon R7 250.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 5800 is 450 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 250.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 3−4 3−4
ultra / 1080p 1−2 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 14−16
medium / 1080p 5−6 5−6
Quadro FX 5800 and Radeon R7 250 have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 5800 Radeon R7 250
Architecture Tesla 2.0 GCN
Code name GT200B Oland XT
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 11 November 2008 1 October 2013
Pipelines 240 384
Core clock speed 610 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 950 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 48.80 25.20
Floating-point performance 622.1 gflops 716.8 gflops
Length 267 mm 168 mm
Memory bus width 512 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 72 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model 4.0 5.1
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 1.3
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 117 Mh/s
Design reference
CrossFire +
DDMA audio +
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 3 Mh/s
AppAcceleration +
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