Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		63 Watts
Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 250 should theoretically be just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250 will be quite a bit (approximately 25%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250 is superior to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (25%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.