AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +1028%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290X

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

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

44

-

320

Shading Units

2816

20

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

290W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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