AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +722%

4.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic 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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/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

32.06 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Tonga

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

5 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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