Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 6790
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6790
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6790
    112%
  • Radeon R7 250
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6790

Around 12% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6790 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 6790

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6790

The Radeon HD 6790 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6790Radeon R7 250
GPU NameBarts (Barts LE)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders800vs384
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock840 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6790Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6790Radeon R7 250
TDP150 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date4 Apr 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6790
    13.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6790
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6790
    134.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6790
    1344.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6790
    3090
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)