GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

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AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 580

CORE STATE Polaris 20

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1340 MHz

TDP 185 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,280

37,453

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,005

geekbench_metal

N/A

52,176

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

45,173

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

60

passmark_directx_12

N/A

43

passmark_directx_9

N/A

124

passmark_g2d

N/A

769

passmark_g3d

N/A

8,813

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

3,488

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R7 240

RX 580

Core Specs

Shading Units

320

2,304 +620.0%

Shaders

320

2,304 +620.0%

TMUs

20

144 +620.0%

ROPs

8

32 +300.0%

Compute Units

5

36 +620.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

730 MHz

1257 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1340 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

28.80 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

42.88 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

499.2 GFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

385.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

6.175 TFLOPS (1:1)

Power

TDP

30 W

185 W

TDP (W)

30

185 +516.7%

Suggested PSU

200 W

450 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GCN 4.0

GPU Name

Oland

Polaris 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands (R7 200)

Polaris (RX 500)

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

950 million

5,700 million

Die Size

77 mm²

232 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

GlobalFoundries

Density

12.3M / mm²

24.6M / 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

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

69 mm 2.7 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x VGA

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

69 USD

229 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Sea Islands

Arctic Islands

Successor

Pirate Islands

Vega

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