AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (925MHz vs 780MHz)

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

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +279%

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

5

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

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1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Oland

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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