AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1266MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1069%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Nov 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

5

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Oland

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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