AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +441%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

Northern Islands

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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

5

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Oland

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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