AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

2496 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Boost Clock780MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +1048%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

5

-

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

30W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Oland

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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