PowerColor Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card Review

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Power Consumption

 PowerColor AXR7 250X Power Connector

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we ran Battlefield 4 at 1920×1080 and recorded the average idle reading and the peak gaming reading on the power meter.

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Power Consumption Results: The PowerColor Radeon R7 250X 1GB video card had solid power efficiency numbers and our entire system (minus the monitor) at the wall outlet was pulling 110 Watts at idle and 244 Watts load. This puts the power consumption while gaming at about ~20 Watts more than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750. Keep in mind the EVGA GeForce GTX 750 1GB Superclocked video card was significantly faster in the benchmarks, so it wins when it comes to performance and power consumption albeit the card does cost about around $20 to $30 more.

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  • JuaaO

    Thanks for this benchmarks, very helpful.

  • SlutMagnet

    Thank you LegitReviews. I’ll never visit this site again. 1080p with 2X SSAA ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE? No one looks up gaming benchmarks to see how many frames-per-nanoseconds a fucking GPU is better at when it runs at fucking 10FPS! 4X MSAA? In 2014? You have to be fucking kidding me. This is why console gamers or just gamers who are interested in PC gaming get disappointed and will eventually find excuses that you’re paying too much for what you get, or “mujh optimizations”.

    Tell me, how the fuck did you benchmark that at 15FPS? Fucking ridiculous.

  • zulboy45

    try at the lowest setting-medium with 250x. you will find it is playable game at all 1080p games. at least the budget help some gamer to play game with cheap budget

  • Pissed off

    I say we should all just wait for AMD to get their heads out of their ass, and fix the price issue with the R9 cards.

    • Dr.Watson

      The problem is that those R9 cards are no heavily used to for bitcoin mining. Hence the price of those cards that rocketed as AMD is most suited for the job unlike NVIDIA.

  • basroil

    Can anyone actually claim that the 250X fulfills any role in the market? Most cards are as expensive as the 750, but use more power and have only 2/3rds the performance in AMD optimized games! This looks to be another OEM fraud card…