AMD Radeon R7 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +364%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1600

20

TMUs

80

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

23.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

294W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Hemlock

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

334 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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