AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1050MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +438%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 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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