Radeon HD 6770 vs Radeon R7 240

Radeon HD 6770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6770
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6770

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240

78 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6770 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6770

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6770Radeon R7 240
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders800vs320
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock850 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6770Radeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6770Radeon R7 240
TDP108 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date21 Jan 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6770
    13.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6770
    34.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6770
    76.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better