Radeon R5 220 OEM vs Radeon R7 250X

Radeon R5 220 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 220 OEM
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 220 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 250X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 220 OEMRadeon R7 250X
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders80vs640
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock650 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 220 OEMRadeon R7 250X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed533 MHz
1066 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 220 OEMRadeon R7 250X
TDP19 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date21 Dec 2013vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    8.53 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better