Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

Radeon RX 480
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 480
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480

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 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 240 OEM

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 480

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)vsOland ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders2304vs320
Compute Units36vs5
Core clock1120 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs144vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 480Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 480Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP150 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    40.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 480
    182.30 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 480
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 480
    5834.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better