AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock780MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+1048%
5.733 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 240 OEM
0.499 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Nov 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
5
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
320
176
TMUs
20
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
499.2 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
31.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
50W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Oland
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
