AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +659%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

5

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Oland

-

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

50W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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