Radeon HD 8240 IGP vs Radeon HD 7950

Radeon HD 8240 IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8240 IGP

185 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 7950

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8240 IGPRadeon HD 7950
GPU NameKalindi (Kalindi LP)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size110 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,178 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders128vs1792
Compute Units2vs28
Core clock400 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8240 IGPRadeon HD 7950
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs384 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8240 IGPRadeon HD 7950
TDP15 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date1 Nov 2013vs31 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    1.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    3.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8240 IGP
    102.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better