HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2) vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2012
HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameIvy Bridge GT2 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process22 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors392 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders16vs320
Compute Units0vs5
Core clock650 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs4vs20

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP0 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date14 May 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    2.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge GT2)
    20.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better