Radeon HD 6670 vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 6670
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6670
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6670
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250
    139%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6670

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 39% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

The Radeon R7 250 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6670Radeon R7 250
GPU NameTurks (Turks XT)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders480vs384
Compute Units6vs6
Core clock800 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6670Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6670Radeon R7 250
TDP66 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date19 Apr 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6670
    6.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6670
    19.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6670
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6670
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6670
    1960
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)