AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

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

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +318%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

18

-

320

Shading Units

1440

20

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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