AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 186W)

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930 +284%

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

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Radeon HD 6930

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

20

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.00 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

60.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

480.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Cayman

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

186W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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