AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1071MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP +174%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

10

-

320

Shading Units

640

20

TMUs

40

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

17.14 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 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

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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