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Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The Radeon R7 240 comes with a clock speed of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380X, which has GPU clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380X 9519 points
Radeon R7 240 1218 points
Difference: 8301 (682%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240 30 Watts
Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
Difference: 160 Watts (533%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380X should be 533% faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 153600 (533%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is a lot (more or less 750%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 109560 (750%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be a lot (approximately 432%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 240, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25200 (432%)

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 380X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 November 2015
Code Name Oland PRO Tonga XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 730 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 30 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 14600 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5840 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320 2048
Texture Mapping Units 20 128
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1040 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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