Earlier this week I looked at an AMD R7 250X 1GB GDDR5 OC card from Gigabyte, which proved to be a solid entry level card with great potential and good value. Today I have yet another AMD R7 250 card on the review bench, the XFX R7 250E Core Edition. Why another R7 250 card you ask? The answer is very simple; different needs and usage scenarios require different types of hardware. In some situations, performance is not the main focus and other features such as size or noise levels are higher on the priority list. Depending on the projected build and actual limitations, it's very common to see performance sacrificed on the usability altar.

The XFX R7 250E Core Edition is a compact, single slot card that looks gorgeous, for a piece of hardware that is. This card lives to the high standards and excellent finish I come to expect from XFX. Although underneath the shiny new shroud, it's actually a rebadge of the Radeon HD 7750 that runs a conservative 800MHz GPU clock. Built around the 28nm Cape Verde PRO GPU, the XFX R7 250E Core Edition comes with 512 Unified Shaders, 32 TMUs and 16 ROPs. In terms of memory, we got 1GB of GDDR5 clocked at 1125MHz on a 128-bit bus for a total bandwidth of 72GB/s.