Radeon R7 M440 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon R7 M440
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R7 M440
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 M440

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 M440

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 M440

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M440Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameJet (Jet PRO)vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock780 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs20vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M440Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M440Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP0 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date15 May 2016vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M440
    6.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M440
    17.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M440
    16.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M440
    547.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better