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 480
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1266 MHz
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R7 240
RX 480
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
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1266 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
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
499.2 GFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
30 W
150 W
TDP (W)
30
150
+400.0%
Suggested PSU
200 W
450 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Oland
Ellesmere
Generation
Volcanic Islands
(R7 200)
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
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
240 mm
9.4 inches
Height
69 mm
2.7 inches
95 mm
3.7 inches
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
Pirate Islands
Successor
Pirate Islands
Polaris