AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 105% (1600MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +2527%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

64

-

320

Shading Units

4096

20

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Vega 10

-

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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