Radeon HD 7720 OEM vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 7720 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7720 OEM
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7720 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7720 OEM .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7720 OEMRadeon 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
ROPs32vs8
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7720 OEMRadeon 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 7720 OEMRadeon R7 250
TDP150 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7720 OEM
    26.90 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7720 OEM
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7720 OEM
    134.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7720 OEM
    1344.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better