Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) vs Radeon R5 230
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 230 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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| GPU Name | Oland () | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 90 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 730 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 20 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Nov 2013 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better