Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 32 Watts (51%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB should be a lot (more or less 108%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20800 (108%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB is quite a bit (more or less 150%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.