Radeon HD 6230 vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 6230
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6230
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6230

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 250 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6230Radeon R7 250
GPU NameCedar (Cedar LE)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders80vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock650 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs2vs8
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6230Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6230Radeon R7 250
TDP19 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date2 Jul 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6230
    1.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6230
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6230
    8.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6230
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better