Radeon R9 370 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370
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 R9 370
    425%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 370

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 325% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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)

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370

The Radeon R9 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1280vs320
Compute Units24vs5
Core clock925 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 370Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 370Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP110 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 370
    7790
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)