AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 105% (1600MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +2527%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

5

4096

Shading Units

320

256

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Oland

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

30W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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