Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    106%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8570 OEM

Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 8570 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8570 OEM

The Radeon HD 8570 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameOland ()vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock730 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP50 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    5.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    14.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    1940
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)