Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5830 |
Around 79% higher average synthetic performance. |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5830 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5830
The Radeon HD 5830 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5830 | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
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GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress LE) | vs | Oland () |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 90 mm² |
Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 1,040 million |
Shaders | 1120 | vs | 320 |
Compute Units | 14 | vs | 5 |
Core clock | 800 MHz | vs | 730 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
TMUs | 56 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5830 | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5830 | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
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TDP | 175 watts | vs | 50 watts |
Release Date | 25 Feb 2010 | vs | 1 Nov 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)