Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R9 380

Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 250
    100%
  • Radeon R9 380
    448%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 348% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 380

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

The Radeon R9 380 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R9 380
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders384vs1792
Compute Units6vs28
Core clock1000 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R9 380
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250Radeon R9 380
TDP65 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 250
    2740
  • Radeon R9 380
    12280

Points (higher is better)