AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

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

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +441%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

24

-

320

Shading Units

1536

20

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Antilles

-

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

389 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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