Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R7 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R7 240
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon R7 240
930
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R7 240
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Cypress
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
-
780 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
320
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
14.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
72 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-