ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +364%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Oct 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

5

-

1600

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Oland

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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