Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs Radeon R7 250

Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250
    141%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8570 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 41% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8570 OEMRadeon R7 250
GPU NameOland ()vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs384
Compute Units5vs6
Core clock730 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R7 250
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R7 250
TDP50 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    5.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    14.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    1940
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)