Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 270X
    317%
  • Radeon R7 250
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

Around 217% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

115 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 270X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270X

The Radeon R9 270X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R7 250
GPU NameCuracao (Curacao XT)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1280vs384
Compute Units20vs6
Core clock1000 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R7 250
TDP180 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 270X
    8700
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)