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Radeon HD 3470 512MB vs Radeon R7 240

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The Radeon HD 3470 512MB comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 950 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 40(8x5) SPUs as well as 4 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with core speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 3470 512MB should in theory be a bit better than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3470 512MB 30400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 will be a lot (more or less 356%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 3200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11400 (356%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 240 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 3200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2640 (83%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 3470 512MB Radeon R7 240
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2008 October 2013
Code Name RV620 PRO Oland PRO
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 730 MHz
Memory Speed 1900 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 30 watts
Bandwidth 30400 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 3200 Mtexels/sec 14600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 3200 Mpixels/sec 5840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 40(8x5) 320
Texture Mapping Units 4 20
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 1040 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 3470 512MB

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Radeon R7 240

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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