Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) vs Radeon R9 290

Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Radeon R9 290
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 290

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%
  • Radeon R9 290
    843%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 290

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290

The Radeon R9 290 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)Radeon R9 290
GPU NameOland ()vsHawaii (Hawaii PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders320vs2560
Compute Units5vs40
Core clock730 MHzvs947 MHz
ROPs8vs64
TMUs20vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)Radeon R9 290
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)Radeon R9 290
TDP50 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date1 Nov 2013vs5 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    60.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    152.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 290
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 290
    4849.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830
  • Radeon R9 290
    15440

Points (higher is better)