Radeon HD 3650 AGP vs Radeon R7 250XE

Radeon HD 3650 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3650 AGP
Radeon R7 250XE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Aug 2014
Radeon R7 250XE
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250XE

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250XE

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 3650 AGPRadeon R7 250XE
GPU NameRV635 (RV635 PRO)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size135 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors378 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders120vs640
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock725 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 3650 AGPRadeon R7 250XE
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 3650 AGPRadeon R7 250XE
TDP65 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date23 Jan 2008vs21 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3650 AGP
    2.90 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    13.76 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 3650 AGP
    5.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    34.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 3650 AGP
    16.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 3650 AGP
    174.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250XE
    1100.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better