Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    912%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 812% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsOland ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders2048vs320
Compute Units32vs5
Core clock926 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs128vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP120 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)