This is the first and last time I'll be testing this graphics card...

[@baroncalamityplus]

I need glasses to see. However watching cyberpunk here, I could take off my glasses and see no difference!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Same 😂

[@lukaskral1800]

Top comment 😂

[@arz1898]

@@RandomGaminginHD RandomGaming with glasses confirmed 🤯😂

[@mattketner7597]

As someone who is blind, I confirm

[@mukyuuhikuu]

I think i can see the game better with my glasses off, thats how blurry it is.

[@andystech101]

Imagine when we look back at the GTX1630 in 8 odd years. That can’t even play games at 1080p on launch and this actually could lol

[@jandreleroux7924]

“1080p? You must be having a laugh.” Hahaha that really made me laugh. Great video as per usual.

[@DemonLordGamingAC0]

A friend of mine used to play GTA 5 Online at 480p windowed on the lowest of lowest settings to achieve 30+ FPS. He was running an i7 3770 with integrated graphics. Don't underestimate what budget gamers will do to play higher end games. Certainly they'll go beyond what you'd call "playable" I sold my used GTX 1660 to this friend for a pretty low price when I upgraded Edit: HOLY shit this blew up...

[@AdamantMindset]

as long game is launching it's playable for low end gamers xD I'm currently in that segment with my 750ti sadly games are moving to dx12 and I can't play recent titles. waiting for some more price drops to finally get 3070 or equivalent so that I'm good for next 5-6 years

[@craigmorgan4338]

That is literally what this guys whole youtube is about. I think the highest thing i've seen him benchmark is a 3050. He would happily recommend integrated graphics he loves his athlon integrated graphics.

[@GentlyUsedFrog]

@@AdamantMindset maaaan I was on a 750Ti for 6 years (2014-2020) and got a whole new rig wit ha 5700 XT, and today I just bought a 6800 XT

[@mrducky179]

the thing i miss most after getting a better system is the amazing feeling of running a game at near 60fps with the settings you configured yourself, its very rewarding

[@noba4696]

oh yes I can confirm that, a friend of mine played (~2019) fairly recent games with an HD4770 (on an old af FX-CPU). Even RocketLeague looked atrocious. I couldnt bear watching him, but he would refuse me buying him something better. So when he had his Birthday, his friends and I bought him a brand new Rig with a 2400G which literally quadrupled his fps despite being integrated Graphics. (And it gave me the chance to overspend on the Budget without him knowing)

[@DOverton252]

I remember this card. This was a card that I picked up out of desperation after my laptop shit in me back in 2014. Took it back to best buy the next day and bought a GTX580 on Craigslist for like $80, as well as a psu for another $30 lol. This card was not good. I just wanted to play sc2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. It did terribly with both.

[@terrapinflyer273]

Was it GDDR5? And paired with what cpu? I've seen some tests w the RX 580 paired with a Xeon E5-1620 v2 and it really gave some great performance. But, I can't say if the video creator was in fact being honest.

[@another3997]

As is usually the case, it wasn't anything wrong with the card, just the user's faulty expectations of what it should do. People should spend more time checking what they actually need before rushing out and buying something.

[@lordwafflesthegreat]

We need more cards like this. Who wouldn't mind a tiny modern card that is basically a 3050TI/3060 sub 75W mobile card? Good enough for all tasks, with a bit of gaming oomph. Perfect for a tiny PC that is mostly used for graphically undemanding work, but is sometimes used to game a bit. Yes, the new AMD 7000 chips have decent graphics, but it's basically either 6-7 y/o games or eSports at 1080p/30fps. I'd really like a card capable of 1080p mid-high in Cyberpunk that is only 2 slots, one fan and doesn't require additional power. Basically, a laptop 3060.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

A I miss when we had loads of tiny cards on the market. Palit make some cool tiny RTX cards though

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

2 slots is 2 thicc. ONE slot or bust. Half height, too. Some of us have SFF Optiplexes. The RX6400 or T1000 come closest to these requirements, but are more in line with a GTX 1650 in terms of performance. But the T1000, though its feature set is awesome for its size, is too damn expensive. If AMD could just include the damn VCE with the low end of the RX 7000 line (RX 7400?) instead of cutting it out like they did with

[@326787421]

@@RandomGaminginHD Yeston as well. Their design for RTX 3060 / RX 6500 is really nice.

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

There is the GT1030, a card 10x better than this. I once fell a victim for a Dell OEM R7 350X low profile card, when shopping for my bedroom TV video playback PC. The R7 340X was more terrible than the DDR3 version of the GT730. Even just for video playback, because the drivers were a mess.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@hyperturbotechnomike AMD's drivers are pretty good these days

[@ItsJustArcher]

The first gpu I had was the 2gb gddr5 version from PowerColor. It was a hand-me-down from my brother, and it was all I had until I recently upgraded to an RX 6500xt. Needless to say the upgrade was worth it for me. But that old ass card holds a special place in my heart for fulfilling my gaming needs back when I was young, even if barely.

[@alaconuriss]

For me, it was a GTX 460 from Galaxy

[@scrunts666]

I used an R9 270X 4GB until last year, great card :D

[@vasya_cat]

My first ever gpu was a radeon 9600pro advantage

[@scrunts666]

@@vasya_cat I had one of those, it had a whopping 512mb ram :D

[@Petar321_GT]

@@vasya_cat i got a 9600 XT, flex xD

[@Burnt_Water]

My first GPU was an R7 240... in 2017... Unsurprisingly it didn't perform too well. Then I jumped to a 1050 Ti which was awesome, then a 3070 which is my third and current GPU. Both of my upgrades have been *big* jumps from my previous card. I hope my 3070 lasts me a long while though... I dread buying another GPU due to prices

[@HanCurunyr]

I went from R9 270 to 1050ti to RX 590 to RTX 3070, and I'm seeing that the 3070 is aging quite well, the 1050ti was already struggling at 1080p one year after launch, the RTX 3070 still tanks everything like a champ at 1440p even after two years after launch

[@nazmulfahad3044]

@@HanCurunyr tf it’s been two years!!

[@HanCurunyr]

@@nazmulfahad3044 Yep, Ampere was announced Sept 1st,, 2020 and the 3090, 3080 and 3070 launched Sept 17th, 2020

[@nintendoatarikiller]

I also had an R7 240 and jumped to a 1050Ti lol GPU prices should be at their lowest right now since the crypto crash and next gen cards coming out. I ended up getting an RX 6600 XT because the ARC gpus weren't coming out in time.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

3070 will carry you over trough PS5 age

[@reik019]

I have Dell variants of this card (the low profile, AMD Reference ones) based in DDR3 memory, and let me tell you a little nice secret: the DDR3 ones are almost always capped at 65W, and almost always have turbo as well, idk about the GDDR5 ones. Using MSI Afterburner you can actually bypass the power limit up to 75W and you can bypass the core clock/memory clock limits, and almost all cards overclock wonderfully well. On my dual R7 250s, I think I have managed to make these card run at 1250MHz core (when turbo-ing, when hitting base clocks it hits like 1175MHz or so) and managed to make the memory run at 1300MHz no hassle, getting around a 33% performance uplift on each card. On their own, they are pretty weak, but running two in games that actually run in crossfire, they are around 45-55% the performance of a 1650, in fact, the two in crossfirex ran Crysis in high at 1080P without dropping to 60FPs in anywhere on the entire game, so for retro gaming they are pretty solid if you don't mind hacking with them to get the performance you want.

[@nachogsr5085]

I did something similar but with an R7 240, this things OC really well. Mine did 1100MHz memory (800MHz stock) and 1050MHz clock (730MHz stock). and when running it in dual graphics mode with an R7 iGPU (also OCd to 910MHz because that was the maximum allowed) some games ran really well considering it was being run in shitty hardware lol. Some games had issues with frame timing tho due to the difference between the iGPU and the R7 240. Fun times :)

[@reik019]

@@nachogsr5085 I also have an A10 chip, but I decided to go with dual R7 250s due to my slow memory kit (And I couldn't afford to replace it, it was cheaper to grab two graphics card lol), as it did bottleneck really hard the graphics card if I used Dual Graphics with that memory kit, although it should be fine with A10 systems with DDR3-2133 or higher. Ditching the IGPU and running on two identical cards did increase the CPU performance a bit too.

[@LorikQuinn]

I used mine overclocked to 1250mhz for 5 years and it was a tiny beast. Never saw a card that benefited so much from a few more mhz, it was great to play kf2, overwatch and gta v at 1440x900p (with the 2gb gddr5)

[@AxleTrade]

I was desperate back then to replace my XFX 5450 and was considering on getting this as an upgrade. Thankfully my mate sold me his 7790 instead for around a hundred bucks at the time.

[@Negiku]

My first PC gpu was an msi 7770 and I loved it so much, it was a huge upgrade from my laptop's HD 4650.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

I used one of those for a while it was great :)

[@gg2324]

I also had a laptop with a 5650m it was absolute shit unable to run bad company 2 without stuttering lol mobile graphics came a long way since then

[@huzarion3814]

My first new gpu that I bought in 2012 was Shapphire 7770 vapor-x , that was awesome gpu :)

[@vespermoirai975]

My first pc I ever put a GPU in was a HD 2600 when it was still ATI.Then when i graduated college I built my first PC with Dual 6850s. Then computer after that had a R9290x. Love me some AMD even if I'm unfortunately (My wallet hurts) on team green this build around.

[@gg2324]

@@vespermoirai975 dual 6850 ? Damn the micro stuttering must have been hard lol

[@onfik]

hey quick thought. For these older cards you test can you also include older titles? For example: Fate (first one in the series), by WildTangent, Morrowind, Oblivion, Ever Quest 1, or 2, CS-Source, Banished, Far Cry 3, Resident Evil 4?

[@LorikQuinn]

I used and still own a XFX 2GB DDR5 and it ran games great at 1440x900. Games like Killing Floor 2, O.G. Skyrim (the special edition destroys the card lmao), Saints Row 4, Overwatch on low, GTA 5 would all run pretty good with the clock set to 1250mhz. Its a good card for 720p gaming, wish there were more of these low power low profile cards nowadays.

[@MrDrewseph]

Something to consider with older cards: a crt monitor, set to 480p It looks great in person, plenty of refresh rates to play with, tiny visible scanlines, the only drawback in that text is slightly less readable. But it's not super pixelly like it would be on an lcd, owing to crt displays not having a fixed resolution

[@InsanityPrevails]

Hey Steve :) Do you have a rough estimate on when the video with all of the benchmarks from the GPUs from the box is coming? Or will it not be coming at all? o:

[@coochiedingler8868]

i ate the gpus

[@Uraim]

i still using Gigabyte R7 240 2gb DDR3 in my main gaming pc.

[@MultiYippee]

@@coochiedingler8868 lmao

[@savalije2405]

I have a 2gb gddr5 version, and even though legacy drivers are somewhat new (Last one june 2021 I believe), I still get a crash once or twice a month randomly when alt tabbing/loading a game (glad I have ssd 😂)

[@youzernejm]

Try Nimez drivers, maybe they'll help. Maybe not, it really depends in my experience, but if they did your issues it'll be worth it.

[@Beisepimp]

I've got the R7 250x 2GB GDDR5 for free last year, the difference is really big against the non x variant :D

[@settantahp8615]

Used to have a Sapphire R7 250X 1GB GDDR5 in my PC back in 2019, i bought it on that august for 19 euros + 5.50 shipping, so a total of 24.50e for that GPU, got me a little into playing some games with an A6 7400k at 4.0Ghz and then "upgraded" to an Athlon X4 840, it made me a lot of memories.... Completely remade the PC from January 2021 to June 2021 with an RX 580 2048SP 4GB and now rocking an RX 6700 10GB on the same build as the RX580, this little Xeon E3 1240 V5 is giving me a lot of worth for the 20e i paid it back in March 2021🤣

[@mck8292]

Always feels good revisiting those old budget gpus to remember what we went through as low-spec gamers ahah

[@julian-vanilla8379]

i used a non gaming laptop before my pc so a UHD Graphics. it was bad, as strong as a og xbox but maybe weaker

[@mck8292]

Hi! i'm also an EX-Intel HD user myself, used to play with an old celeron with only 2 threads (at 1,7 Ghz) and a old 2Gb stick of unknow DDR3 memory sooo yeah... i understand your pain.. x)

[@another3997]

​@@julian-vanilla8379But that isn't a problem with the Intel GPU, it's a problem with the person who bought or uses the laptop for something it was never designed to do. The original Xbox played games very well, despite it's relatively modest specs, because the games were written with it's capabilities in mind. You can't buy one now and say it was crap, just because it can't play modern games in 4K resolution.

[@samawol4161]

I actually used this exact GPU in my first gaming PC. It was totally fine back in the day allowing me to have a ~40fps 1080p experience in GTA 5 online and a very playable minecraft experience, etc. paired with an AMD Phenom II X4 945 and 4GB RAM.

[@terrapinflyer273]

Whoa. Really? I have a Phenom II X4 955 (95W) and 2x2GB DDR2-800. Although I have the R7 250 2GB GDDR3 OEM model. Guessing you may have been running DDR3?

[@dodgydruid]

This very well could be the rare 64bit 250, I remember towards the end of gDDR3 there were crazy "cheap" cards being chucked out just to use up the chip stocks whilst giving a semblance of something of value, 64bit bandwidth bus is an horrendous experience, I remember a Dell branded 4gb gDDR5 7xxx Radeon, oh the specs looked super sexeh if you ignored the 96bit bandwidth and it was far far more terrible than the 5970 I had replaced with it... Bandwidth is oft overlooked by folks myself once upon a time included, 128 is sluggish regardless of how fast the ram on the card is, 256 is much better whilst 384 is a number to look out for because it can pump raw data to the CPU so much better, a 128bit bus can not only slow down your graphics performance but also hinder the Window's "stack" thus more timeslices are spent fiddling about tapping its foot waiting for the hoary old GPU to deliver its goods. GPU makers know if they they chuck in the latest memory modules, latest reference GPU, stick a fancy fan on the thing and sell it in a snazzy box, people will buy it then find that creaky croaky old 128 interface bandwidth makes the thing perform like a 20 year old pig... Its why my next purchase is going to be a GPU'd Ryzen 7, plus a ton of ram and a fairly whizzing mobo will make card chasing for me a thing of the past.

[@mikesunboxing]

in the Cyber Punk car it looked like the 3DFX DOS4GW version of carmageddon 😂

[@RandomGaminginHD]

My eyes hurt haha

[@garchamp9844]

The R7 250 is the most modern AMD GPU that has drivers for Windows XP, and it is the most powerful AMD GPU compatible with XP that exists in a low profile version. So if you have an R7 250, build a retro gaming rig and don't expect it to run Cyberpunk lol.

[@PTBaphomet]

The only use case I gave to one of these was AMD dual graphics sync with my Kaveri 7850 on a htpc. It was not half bad back in 2014.

[@GoingtoHecq]

I was in need of a gpu for an unraid server. Just something to do basic transcoding. Thanks for reminding me this gpu even exists. Cheaper than a gt730 and a bit more oomph too.

[@user-bj8ky4jt3r]

M8 i had this in lp in my first dell 7010sff rig, i went to bed crying, at the time I got 45-50 fps in Siege at 720p. The latency was like dialup on depressants

[@ARTala88]

My first graphics card was a Nvidia 6600gt/ and i played Crysis and half-life 2 at low settings. I have had a rx 280 and a 560gtx, rx 580 witch even today is a good card and now i have a rtx3070

[@spahr001]

R7 250 is great for emulation builds due to it getting enough power via PCIe, it being small, ok power, and very cheap.

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Id argue Cyberpunk is still very immersive like this, you are immersed in the fact that V needs glasses and should not be driving

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah poor eyesight edition

[@epm8593]

Years I play NFS most wanted on Intel P4 2.4ghz iGPU. 15-25fps. Still a pleasant memory.

[@costi2596]

Wow, wow. You aint ALLOWED to say something bad about the r7 250 for the rest of my lifetime. I had one and i loved it.

[@panjimartiandaru3081]

I still have one but the non boost version, keeping it around as emergency card 😂

[@hovanthecool1995]

This is one of those rare occasions where I can say wow, my gpu is better, a 2 gig Gigabyte Windforce GTX 960, which is still a piece of trash for me.

[@HuFaShortss]

Oh boy I'm using this card and it's a pain, it'll work on 90+ fps on Valorant and then freeze for no reason lol

[@jannovak7749]

I remember my first PC with R7 250X OC with 1 GB of GDDR5...it was decent for what it cost me (something like 20 pounds in 2018)...

[@christianstraightmantvceo]

I guess the famous “Read Dead Disaster 2” must only exclusively run on older GPUs like the 250

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha

[@inqizzo]

Now try mined on rx 480's, 560's and 570's, and compare them to new cards

[@GummyGruffi]

Would be interesting to see if performance would be higher with modded drivers like NimeZ (Amernime), not only they add support for older cards that AMD stopped supporting long time ago but they also added various performance tweaks for DX9/DX11/OpenGL.

[@terrapinflyer273]

Interesting. I might have to check that out. I have the OEM R7 250.

[@modermonkula]

They should just have a setting called "without glasses" to enable for low end cards

[@renebibibi9283]

haha im more lucky with a R7 260x 2GB aka HD7790 aka NV 750ti killer :) 3 fps more?

[@macik1119]

Recently I bought Firepro W5100 4Gb for 40€ and that card is in performace like r7 260 non X. I think that was a good deal.

[@renebibibi9283]

@@macik1119 4GB Card is amazing deal enough ram for 1080p games, congrats!

[@maximumdt5084]

Aw, thought it was a DDR4 GT1030 by the title.... Lol.

[@filenotfound__3871]

Perhaps you should include Apex legends as a test, it is a free game, fitting for poor people with thoose old systems.

[@b1thearchitect401]

I'd love to see you benchmark older games that are more relevant to the cards horsepower. NOBODY is buying or using old ass low powered cards to play Cyberpunk (at least nobody sane). The thing that's awesome about the PC platform is you can play old games at higher resolutions and frame rates and this is my fave use case for PC gaming. Would love to see more classsic/older game benchmarks depending on the card!

[@solemnsilence3650]

I had an r7 260x which was an upgrade from a gt 730 😅

[@JJDeafGeek]

I wasn’t aware that amd has this two memory models differences cards. There was a couple of Nvidia cards I had a while back that had both a higher memory size but slower bandwidth and smaller and faster memory and for those two cards I purposely searched for the smaller but much faster memory models. I think the two cards I am referring to is Nvidia GT730 and Nvidia GT1030. Both have low profile and/or single slot models. The performance gaps between the smaller but faster memory model and the bigger but slower memory model was literally the faster smaller one being 2x faster than the bigger but slower memory model. I think it was 2gb gddr3 or ddr4 (yes ddr4) vs 1 gb gddr5.

[@DragonBane299]

Red Dead Disaster 2 genuinely made me chuckle

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😁

[@vitaobatera]

Please let me ask you to do another video with this video card!! Can you PLEASE (yes it's for real) test it vs the new RDNA2 (2CUs) integrated graphics inside Ryzen 7000 CPUs?? Yes it sounds crazy on paper, but it might not be that much... and I'd love to see it, since that's the jump I'm going to do. This black friday!! Thanks!!!

[@armorgeddon]

Unless I overlocked any important detail even the 2400G in another video RandomGaminginHD did was mostly faster than this GPU. It was only better in 1% and 0.1% fps dips where the APU struggled a it more. Sadly the video about the 2400G lacked any info about the memory settings apart from being DDR4-3200.

[@jimcachero]

No matter what I absolutely enjoy all your content…. Besides, every GPU has its place.

[@silveredbullet802]

For being a budget gamer for some years now (2010-2018) this is playable. Got a 1650 super and R5 3500 for my latest rig and I will miss the blurry but running games.

[@nadir4562]

omg, my intigrated gpu runs cyberpunk at 30fps average with FSR set to balance XDDD

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah this thing has not aged well lol

[@thewacokidd06]

the r5 250 was a rebadged hd 7770 wasn't it?

[@LastofAvari]

CP2077 is what I see without my glasses :)

[@michaelthompson9798]

These itx gpus are awesome and sooo cute 🥰🥰💪👍

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah it’s size is the best thing about it lol

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

When doing cards like this you should test a few games of the time as well to see if it was any good at the time

[@solocamo3654]

Nimez drivers likely would have fixed FH5. I got it to run great on my old 290X with it (obviously the 290X is another universe ahead performance wise though)

[@psychoalert1823]

AND BOOST? NO WAY, THAT'S A DEAL. lmao

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yep! Haha

[@JDStickland]

I have an R7 250X 2GB DDR3 and it's just as miserable. Somehow it needs 6 pin power and even with the memory frequency cranked up it trades blows with the GT 730.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Oof that’s bad lol

[@blakegriplingph]

Six pin on a DDR3 card is a tragedy xD

[@arz1898]

oof at least my ddr3 r7 240 is a low profile card, easy to use as a backup. its the same now with rx6400 vs 6500xt. Sometimes companies never learn😩

[@trr4gfreddrtgf]

holy crap, a 6 pin connector on what is essentially a GT 730... wow.

[@Al3ksandrOrlov]

Haha, I actually bought one of these back in like 2019, and paired it with a 1st gen i5, sold to some guy who wanted to use it for office work for cheap

[@711jastin]

getting the card to even run cyberpunk 2077 is crazy, way beyond crazy.

[@authoritariangentleman7570]

It's totally unplayable, not that crazy.

[@HerrAlien]

The R7 250X is the same as the HD 7770 - about 50% faster than the R7 250, 1GB GDDR5. The R7 250 (GDDR5 variant) will run ok for the more popular multiplayer titles. I owned the 1GB GDDR5 variant, OC, from Sapphire. Same fan shroud etc. I liked how it managed to run (somewhat) older games.

[@ImreBertalan86]

I had this card! It was a huge upgrade for me, lol. You can't even fathom the performance of my previous dedicated graphics card.

[@terrapinflyer273]

Compared to a Geforce 9400GT or Radeon 6450 1GB GDDR3?

[@chiveicrook]

Apparently, you could pair one of these with A10-78xx series APU for some crossfire-ish dual graphics shenanigans. I wonder if it would actually improve anything or slow down such systems even more... On a side note, I recently added a8-7680 to my collection as the last FM2+ cpu to be released and I wonder if it could be compatible with any dual-graphics solution. Detailed information about this cpu seems to be unobtanium

[@nathanhale3006]

That is what one of my HTPC has is a 7890K and R7 250 in crossfire in a slim case. Works fine for that and old games.

[@reik019]

They do work, but most likely the APU is going to slow down a R7 250 if you are not using the A10 7890K and with memory well over 2133MHz, pretty solid if you ask me. Memory will be your main bottleneck on these systems, so DDR3-2133 is the bare minimum, anything higher, as long as your chip supports it will make some big improvements to the graphics. For anything below an A10 7890K or slower memory kits, use an R7 240, no bottlenecks, same performance as if you were using an R7 250 with a chip bottlenecking it. Or do as I did, I ditched the IGPU and brought two 250s instead, they were cheaper than to replace 16GB of DDR3-1866 (And yes, I have the FM2+ board that has the dual x16 PCIe slots) and run well, overclock well, but are slightly loud (They are tiny Dell reference ones, with a teeny tiny fan, but are surprisingly well built for Dell standards), I am running them in a GIGABYTE Sniper A88X board with an AMD A10 7870K overclocked to 4.5GHz and with a custom boost of 4.7GHz. Didn't get rid of the system as it was my machine from when I was a kid, instead I finished it and sometimes I fire it up just because of the nostalgia, Good ol' times.

[@HeyItsJonny]

I had a a10 7800 on the am3+ socket with a r7 250 gddr3 boost card. I used dual graphics crossfire with it, and use that setup for a littler under a year. The key to 'performance' was to get the highest possible ram speed you could afford. I settled for 2133mhz gskill sniper and was able to complete far cry 3 and watch dogs on a *crispy* 720p 60 fps playthrough on $250, with a used case and power supply from my old system. I had to upgrade the cpu cooler to a 92mm arctic tower cooler, because using all of that *"power"* with a stock cooler would cause the system to severely thermal throttle. Overall, most of the games I played ran well enough, and better than the aging xbox 360 I had. GzDoom modding was what kept me on that dual graphics setup for a while, because it ran so well for the price I paid. I was using windows 7 at the time, and I upgraded when I switched to windows 10 due to performance falling off a cliff. Upgraded to a gtx 960 ti and used that until 2020. Never looked back, and now I'm on a pny rtx 3070 LHR.

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

The cyberpunk 2077 gameplay: This is how it looks when you forgot your glasses

[@ohioisbruh]

Nothing beats the GT 710

[@jari2018]

the card is something you use to reaplace old Intel motherboard graphics , -Will get you to Amd A7 standard or like an old amd 4850 -and i played wow and overwatch on an amd 4850 512vRam but got like 25-30 fps , shure the "moder amd250 gddr3 do some frames better like 33 fps . Edit -there is video on youtube showing the card give 44-60 fps in OW1

[@another3997]

People seem to have high expectations of old and low end hardware. Some seem to have bought computers or GPUs without actually checking it can do what they want doing. In a few years time, today's best, most expensive GPUs will be obsolete, unsupported and only suited to playing "oldc games. But some idiot will still buy one and complain it doesn't run games released 10 years after the GPU, at 100fps in 16K resolution. 😂

[@giserson2]

I'm surprised that Cyberpunk 2077 actually ran at a somewhat playable framerate. I bought a HD 8570, which has the exact same GPU and memory as the R7 250, but with lower clock speeds. I used it in a secondary PC for a time and played Dark Souls Remastered with my room mate, I had to use the lowest settings at 1280x720 to get a solid 60fps in that game.

[@MarkMark-mn4jo]

I had a HD 7750 which I thing is basically the same card in my first PC build. It was the cheapest GPU you could buy to get decent 1080p gaming back in 2012. I bought to be able to play modded Skyrim where it performed well. No suprise really that the same/similar GPU can't handle modern games.

[@morzemus1805]

While looking for used deals today, I spotted a cheap looking "GTX 1650 4GB". Low profile to boot! But the more I looked, the stranger it looks. HP model and no external power, ok. It's single slot and has only two monitor ports, while every other GTX 1650 I've seen have been two slots and three monitor ports. I search with the product number and turns out it's a GTX 1150ti, a card I've never heard of. There is little information online, just that it's a laptop card. But this model is clearly discrete. Maybe an interesting collectible?

[@victorlima1503]

I don't get why is this so... "Impressive" to you. I mean, some time ago you reviewed the R5 340x which is the same card of this video but OEM, even in TechPowerUp they describe the R5 340x as a rebranded version of the R7 250

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

My first "Gpu" was an HD 5450 and it was slow, BUT once i managed to OC it to 900mhz it managed to run CS GO at 30fps until like 2016.

[@rare6499]

I can assure you that 21fps would have been considered as a LUXURY of the highest order back in the N64 days. Playing perfect dark multiplayer with bots at about 15fps took real dedication.

[@abhimaanmayadam5713]

And it still lives on in laptops as the Radeon 625. Also the nimez modded drivers do help it. For tf2, I get mid 50 fps to above 60 fps.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Really? Haha I’ll have to find one

[@L4ftyOne]

265*

[@abhimaanmayadam5713]

@@RandomGaminginHD the 625 is on 14 nm but the older Radeon 530 is also on 28nm. They can come in a 4gb variant. Also the gddr5 version has 320 cores, not 384. So look for DDR3 models.

[@SterkeYerke5555]

@@abhimaanmayadam5713 The Radeon 625, according to AMD, is GCN 4 though. That's the same gen as Polaris (RX 480, 580, etc). I'd expect performance to be way better than this all else being equal. Since the memory interface is only 64 bit, you'd be running into a memory bandwidth bottleneck pretty quickly, so I'd expect the GDDR5 variant to be faster than the DDR3 version despite the lack of core count. That might depend somewhat on the game though, as very old games might not be memory bandwidth limited (though a 64 bit DDR3 bus was already pretty mediocre by about 2008). The Radeon 530 is GCN 3 based (same as R9 380 and 380X, but NOT the 370's and 390's), which explains why that's 28nm

[@abhimaanmayadam5713]

@@SterkeYerke5555 But the similarities and performance are there, despite it being made on a newer process.

[@mj-7444]

Framtime shoots up over 50ms at times because it just can’t handle rendering this much.That much input delay makes the game too delayed and UN enjoyable* unfortunately. This GPU is good for 32-Bit and lower emulation.

[@unforgivencaleb528]

That Cyberpunk footage through the R7 250 would look good... in 1999.

[@TridonsEve]

If you ever get the curiosity for these cards back, you could check out the 250E. The card didn't increase avg fps much, but it was way better when it came to choppiness and stuttering. The wife played through the Dragon Age series and the Witcher 3 on it, so it did it's job, and was surprisingly different from the regular 250.

[@infinity2z3r07]

I've played RE2 remake, Snowrunner, Abzu, Art of Rally, Fall Guys on this card at 720p med with good results

[@redragongaming]

Man the R7 250 sucks compared to my R9 380, the frame rate is at least 50% lower. And they have the audacity to call it "with boost". Speaking of gaming, have you tried this new game Metal Hellsinger?

[@narmandawidhi4366]

I'll never forget how incredibly fun is when i had my first custom pc, from laptop radeon HD7670G to GTX 950

[@SlavePup]

the main comparison at the time of the R7 250 was the GT740 I believe some benchmarks also compared it to the GTX750

[@leangxd]

Love your videos Cute 🐶)))

[@cosminmilitaru9920]

The floating stone attacking you was funny tho, lol.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha yeah I thought it was never going to load

[@IcebergTech]

Hmm, does "with Boost" mean it has biscuit, caramel and thick milk chocolate?

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😂 I wish

[@cortezbaldur413]

The ddr3 versions of these cards and just plain ddr3 cards (yes there are models that only have ddr3 looking at u gtx 745) just shouldn't exist there not much cheaper and perform roughly 30-50% worse than the ddr5 variant cause the ddr3 just cannot keep up. Sad as the gtx 745 could have been a decent card if any version of it actually had ddr5. As the gtx 745 has the same architecture as the gtx 750ti just less cores so it could've been half decent if priced properly.

[@journeytree]

I used to have an R7 250 2Gb and I remember barely being able to play Battlefield 4 at medium settings. Thank God I have an RTX 3070ti today so that's no longer an issue.

[@lmaoxd7851]

I currently have the 1gb gddr5 version that has a huge heatsink, the solution i had to play modern games was to lower the resolution and use the custom drivers from amernime zone. It's weird because with this card and an i3-540 with a 4gb ddr3 ram I played the witcher 3 with above 30 fps? It just drops to 20 if you're inside populated cities like novigrad.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

That cooling solution is so disguisting.. I have the same on a NVME pcie card.. like its not meant to cool a frkn GPU...

[@Kwame_Munroe]

hello guys i purchased an xfx rx 6600 swft210 frm amazon about a month ago and demanding games such as elden ring, cyberpunk, farcry6 & watch dogs legion keep crushing but easy to run like gta and nba 2k23 runs smooth it seems to be a driver problem can anyone help

[@DeathMetalDerf]

It's so tiny!!! Good lord, if you're going to use something like that, I sincerely hope you have one heck of a CPU, lol. That thing is gonna be working overtime just to hit 720p at lowest settings.

[@Litron6]

My Sapphire radeon 4650HD 1gb still alive and play some games, after a cooler transplant, had to put a socket 478 cooler and is way better than the stock cooler

[@NaN-cn5hq]

The Witcher 3 is enjoyable imo at 720p on this card. You get a minimum of 22-23 fps only in extremely busy areas otherwise it stays at 25-40 fps

[@DoubleOTism]

Bruh, i used to roll with this card from 2014 to 2017. I played Witcher 3 with it back then and to be honest, i actually enjoyed it.

[@KC-bg1th]

If anybody is wanting to know what it's like to need glasses, Cyberpunk's gameplay is almost exactly what it's like to have very poor eyesight.

[@Almbxeb7212]

Test the "6600m" dGPU :D its weird but its worth looking at given its 200 dollar price point, placing it in direct competition with 6500xt

[@VintageCR]

i still dont understand how a gpu with 2GB performs better then a 4GB due to the memory lanes.. if a game requires 4GB your out of luck anyway unless you lower most graphic settings, but then it makes an unfair challenge vs the 4GB variant because that can run higher settings and thus is the winner and better performer. which is why i find it somewhat of a gimmick. it should be "it can beat a 4GB card within certain conditions"

[@seanvucich]

I don't even need to budget game anymore and run some reasonable specs, but I love these vids and your content - Thanks for doing all this hard work for us all.

[@sukhoikip]

I basically had one of these in my first laptop in form of overclocking its R7 M265 to slightly beyond this card at 1080/1180 core/mem

[@juanmassiosare9850]

R7 250 DDR3 Boost Stock = HD 8670 Stock = HD 8570 OC (1000Mhz core and 1000Mhz Vram). :D

[@itshoddtowardd]

My first gpu for gaming was an R7 250 2GB DDR3! I completed AC unity on it with a framerate of 10-15 fps

[@corruptedpoison1]

That's absolute torture because that game even now looks amazing.

[@itshoddtowardd]

@@corruptedpoison1 I now have a 3080 and 5950x and replayed it recently lol, a bit smoother. I also played fallout 4 on it with around the same fps

[@rachmanfachri]

watching the benchmarks literally confusing and damaging my eyes and my head, I've worn my glasses yet my brain is perplexed that the vision is still blurry

[@ZipplyZane]

Honestly, RDR2 looked better to me when you had FSR disabled. That blurring for only a handful of frames doesn't seem worth it.