GPU Comparison

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
NVIDIA
GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204
VRAM 4 GB
CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz
TDP 148 W
BUS WIDTH 256 bit
ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0
nm
PROCESS 28 nm
LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl
5,280
28,528
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
N/A
369
geekbench_metal
N/A
13,595
geekbench_vulkan
N/A
31,001
passmark_directx_10
N/A
46
passmark_directx_11
N/A
71
passmark_directx_12
N/A
41
passmark_directx_9
N/A
143
passmark_g2d
N/A
764
passmark_g3d
N/A
9,638
passmark_gpu_compute
N/A
4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION
R7 240
GTX 970
Core Specs
Shading Units
320
1,664 +420.0%
Shaders
320
1,664 +420.0%
TMUs
20
104 +420.0%
ROPs
8
56 +600.0%
Compute Units
5
Clocks
Base Clock
730 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective
1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096 +100.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
28.80 GB/s
224.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
499.2 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
30 W
148 W
TDP (W)
30
148 +393.3%
Suggested PSU
200 W
300 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Oland
GM204
Generation
Volcanic Islands (R7 200)
GeForce 900
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
950 million
5,200 million
Die Size
77 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
5.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
168 mm 6.6 inches
267 mm 10.5 inches
Height
69 mm 2.7 inches
111 mm 4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x VGA
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
69 USD
329 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Sea Islands
GeForce 700
Successor
Pirate Islands
GeForce 10
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