Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R5 340 OEM

Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240
Radeon R5 340 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 340 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 340 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 340 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 240Radeon R5 340 OEM
GPU NameOland (Oland PRO)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs384
Compute Units5vs6
Core clock730 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 240Radeon R5 340 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 240Radeon R5 340 OEM
TDP30 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 340 OEM
    614.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better