GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R7 240
CORE STATE
Oland
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
780 MHz
TDP
30 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 550
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1183 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R7 240
RX 550
Core Specs
Shading Units
320
512
+60.0%
Shaders
320
512
+60.0%
TMUs
20
32
+60.0%
ROPs
8
16
+100.0%
Compute Units
5
8
+60.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
730 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1183 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
2,048
0.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
28.80 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
18.93 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
499.2 GFLOPS
1,211.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
30 W
50 W
TDP (W)
30
50
+66.7%
Suggested PSU
200 W
250 W
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Oland
Lexa
Generation
Volcanic Islands
(R7 200)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
950 million
2,200 million
Die Size
77 mm²
103 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.3M / mm²
21.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
168 mm
6.6 inches
145 mm
5.7 inches
Height
69 mm
2.7 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x VGA
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
69 USD
79 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Sea Islands
Arctic Islands
Successor
Pirate Islands
Vega