Radeon HD 8670 OEM vs Radeon R7 250X

Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250X
    145%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 45% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 250X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250X

The Radeon R7 250X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8670 OEMRadeon R7 250X
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock1000 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8670 OEMRadeon R7 250X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8670 OEMRadeon R7 250X
TDP75 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    73.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    2760
  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020

Points (higher is better)