GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    1342%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1242% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

200 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 TiRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGM200 (GM200-310-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size601 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors8,000 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders2816vs320
Compute Units22vs5
Core clock1000 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs96vs8
TMUs176vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 980 TiRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 980 TiRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP250 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date2 Jun 2015vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    24560
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)