Radeon R7 240 and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GT 720
Radeon R7 240
930
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon R7 240
GeForce GT 720
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
Oland
GK208B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
September 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Boost clock speed
780 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
797 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
499.2 gflops
306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
192
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
14.00
12.75
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Multi monitor support
-
3 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-