Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameOland (Oland PRO)vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock730 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 240Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 240Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP30 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better