Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 5830
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5830
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5830
    119%
  • Radeon R7 250
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5830

Around 19% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5830 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 5830

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5830

The Radeon HD 5830 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5830Radeon R7 250
GPU NameCypress (Cypress LE)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1120vs384
Compute Units14vs6
Core clock800 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5830Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5830Radeon R7 250
TDP175 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date25 Feb 2010vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5830
    12.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5830
    44.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5830
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5830
    1792.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5830
    3280
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)