Radeon HD 6670 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6670 |
| Around 7% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6670
The Radeon HD 6670 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6670 | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Turks (Turks XT) | vs | Oland () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 716 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 480 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 730 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6670 | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6670 | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
|---|
| TDP | 66 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 19 Apr 2011 | vs | 1 Nov 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)