AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 240 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 4 months late

Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1050MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +761%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 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

1000 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

32

320

Shading Units

2048

20

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Tahiti

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 + 1x 8-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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