AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon R7 240

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 116% (1683MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +1195%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

320

Shading Units

1920

20

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GP104

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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