Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) vs Radeon R9 290
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
| 225 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 290 |
| Around 743% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290
The Radeon R9 290 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | | Radeon R9 290 | |
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| GPU Name | Oland () | vs | Hawaii (Hawaii PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 90 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 2560 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 40 |
| Core clock | 730 MHz | vs | 947 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 20 | vs | 160 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | | Radeon R9 290 | |
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| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | | Radeon R9 290 | |
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| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 275 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Nov 2013 | vs | 5 Nov 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)