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Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

The Radeon R7 240 uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M365X, which has a core clock frequency of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M365X should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 72000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 43200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X is quite a bit (approximately 153%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 37000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22400 (153%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M365X is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 14800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8960 (153%)

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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R7 240 Radeon R9 M365X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 2015
Code Name Oland PRO Cape Verde
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 730 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 30 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 14600 Mtexels/sec 37000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5840 Mpixels/sec 14800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320 640
Texture Mapping Units 20 40
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1040 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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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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