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

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		63 Watts
Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
	Difference: 32 Watts (51%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 250X should be 13% quicker than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X is quite a bit (more or less 108%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20800 (108%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X is much (about 150%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (150%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.