AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 7 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

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

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +252%

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

16

320

Shading Units

1024

20

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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