Radeon HD 5470 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

Radeon HD 5470
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 5470
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5470

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 240 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 240 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 240 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5470Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders80vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock650 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5470Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5470Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP19 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5470
    2.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5470
    5.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5470
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5470
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better