AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1545MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +1088%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

6

-

2304

Shading Units

384

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Oland

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 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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