Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R7 370

Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R7 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 250
    100%
  • Radeon R7 370
    299%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 370 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 199% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 370

The Radeon R7 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 370
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders384vs1024
Compute Units6vs16
Core clock1000 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 370
TDP65 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 370
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 250
    2740
  • Radeon R7 370
    8210

Points (higher is better)