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HIS R7 250 Twin Fan 2GB D5 LP Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2016-04-04

People which do have really old or discontinued video cards and do want to spend only a small fraction of money on upgrades can look at the R7 250 LP video card from HIS as one of the solutions which does now come with 2GB of GDDR5 memory buffer. In terms of performance, we would rather recommend the card for 1280x1024 or 1680x1050 resolutions, the latter while using low to medium details in games so we won’t get choppy framerates. While the card does feature the same clocks as the one we have reviewed back in 2013, we could overclock it quite a bit in order to surpass performance levels of older Radeon HD 7750 video cards.

Packaging, A Closer Look

Quite some time ago and to be more exact at the end of year 2013 we have had on our hands the R7 250 iCooler Boost Clock 1GB video card from HIS which was a low-end offering for people on a very tight budget and also at that time we have recommended the card for resolutions up to 1680x1050 (22’’ monitors). The GPU of the card did arrive with the Oland code name, sporting 1040 million transistors, 384 stream processors, 24 texture units and 8 ROPs, the same as with the card we are reviewing today. Even the frequencies for the GPU and memory have been left at the same values, the only difference being that this new card does feature double the RAM buffer (2GB) and comes in a Low Profile format so it would also fit in smaller enclosures. The card is shipped in a cardboard enclosure with the updated HIS design, showing the supported technologies via logos on the frontal area:

If we do look a bit on the side, we will be instructed by the manufacturer that this card is compatible only with PCIe connectors:

Nearby HIS does advertise the iCooler cooling solution (which is not present on this version), along with the total RAM quantity and the supported PCI-Express version:

This is not all! We will also get a list of box contents:

On the back side of the box, HIS does explain the benefits of the new AMD Radeon technologies, including the full list of product features and system requirements:

The inside contents borrow the design elements we have also seen with the previously tested HIS R7 360 GREEN iCooler OC card:

As bundle, we have received one multi-language Installation Guide along with the disk with drivers:

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