Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2012
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 XT

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 240 OEM

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 XT .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7870 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7870 XTRadeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameTahiti (Tahiti LE)vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size352 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders1536vs320
Compute Units24vs5
Core clock925 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs96vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7870 XTRadeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7870 XTRadeon R5 240 OEM
TDP185 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date19 Nov 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    29.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    88.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    2842.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better