AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 196% (2310MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4639%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

5

5120

Shading Units

320

TMUs

20

128

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Oland

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

30W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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