AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1183MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +142%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

512

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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