Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 240 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)
Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 19% (925MHz vs 780MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 240
499
Radeon R9 270
+374%
2368
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Nov 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
730 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
780 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
20
320
Shading Units
1280
20
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
499.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Oland
GPU Name
Curacao
Oland PRO
(215-0837015)
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
