Radeon HD 4250 vs Radeon HD 5570

Radeon HD 4250
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Feb 2009
Radeon HD 4250
Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4250

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5570

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4250Radeon HD 5570
GPU NameRV620 (RV620 LE)vsTurks (Turks LE)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors181 millionvs716 million
Shaders40vs320
Compute Units2vs4
Core clock594 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4250Radeon HD 5570
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed396 MHz
792 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4250Radeon HD 5570
TDP25 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date25 Feb 2009vs11 Oct 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4250
    2.38 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4250
    2.38 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4250
    6.34 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4250
    47.52 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better