Radeon HD 7570 vs Radeon R7 240

Radeon HD 7570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7570
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7570

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R7 240
GPU NameTurks (Turks PRO-L)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders480vs320
Compute Units6vs5
Core clock650 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R7 240
TDP60 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2012vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7570
    5.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7570
    15.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7570
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7570
    624.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better