Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

Radeon HD 7470 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7470 OEM
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7470 OEMRadeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameCaicos (Khalidster)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors370 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders160vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock750 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7470 OEMRadeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7470 OEMRadeon R5 240 OEM
TDP27 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7470 OEM
    3.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7470 OEM
    6.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7470 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7470 OEM
    240.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better