AMD Radeon R7 240 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 286W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +140%

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

10

320

Shading Units

800

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

R700

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

286W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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