AMD Radeon RX 560X vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1275MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X +423%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

5

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Oland

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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