AMD Radeon R7 250X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 250X and AMD Radeon HD 6970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 880 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 6.9x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 550 Watt
• Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 1625 MHz vs 1375 MHz
• Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 637 vs 432
• Around 73% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 32.22 vs 18.676
• Around 61% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.963 vs 1.835

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970

• 2.2x more texture fill rate: 84.5 GTexel / s vs 38 GTexel / s
• 2.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 640
• 2.2x better floating-point performance: 2,703.4 gflops vs 1,216 gflops
• Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2839 vs 2269
• Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 920.398 vs 638.532
• Around 80% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 273.175 vs 151.963
• Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5372 vs 3916
• Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5372 vs 3916

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 250X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2269 2839
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	637 432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	32.22 18.676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	638.532 920.398
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.963 1.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	51.987 52.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	151.963 273.175
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3916 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3716 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3916 5372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3716 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3358

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