Radeon R7 240 OEM vs Radeon HD 6950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)
Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 240 OEM
499
Radeon HD 6950
+351%
2253
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Dec 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
730 MHz
Base Clock
-
780 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
22
320
Shading Units
1408
20
TMUs
88
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
499.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
31.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
200W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Oland
GPU Name
Cayman
-
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO
(215-0807019)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
