Radeon HD 8450 OEM vs Radeon R9 295X2

Radeon HD 8450 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
Radeon R9 295X2
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Apr 2014
Radeon R9 295X2

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8450 OEM

482 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 295X2 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 295X2

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 FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 295X2

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 295X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8450 OEMRadeon R9 295X2
GPU NameCaicos (Caicos PRO-L)vsVesuvius (Vesuvius XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors370 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders160vs2816
Compute Units2vs44
Core clock625 MHzvs1018 MHz
ROPs4vs64
TMUs8vs176

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8450 OEMRadeon R9 295X2
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs512 bit x2
Memory Speed667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8450 OEMRadeon R9 295X2
TDP18 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs29 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    2.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    130.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    5.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    358.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    10.70 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    640.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8450 OEM
    200.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    11466.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better