Radeon HD 8670M vs Radeon R5 M240

Radeon HD 8670M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 8670M
Radeon R5 M240
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 18 Sep 2014
Radeon R5 M240

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670M

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 M240

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8670MRadeon R5 M240
GPU NameSun (Sun XT)vsJet (Jet XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock925 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8670MRadeon R5 M240
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8670MRadeon R5 M240
TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date1 Mar 2013vs18 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    7.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M240
    8.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    19.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M240
    20.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    16.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M240
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8670M
    624.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M240
    659.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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