AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 55W)

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +64%

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/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

12.80 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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