Radeon HD 7570 vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 7570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7570
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7570

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 250

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R7 250
GPU NameTurks (Turks PRO-L)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders480vs384
Compute Units6vs6
Core clock650 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R7 250
TDP60 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2012vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7570
    5.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7570
    15.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7570
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7570
    624.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better