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

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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