AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1545MHz 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +1326%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 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

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

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 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

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

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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