AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +871%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

40

-

320

Shading Units

2560

20

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Hawaii

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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