Radeon R7 240 and Radeon RX 550 512SP - video card comparison
Radeon R7 240
Radeon RX 550 512SP
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Oland
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2017
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Boost clock speed
780 MHz
1071 MHz
Floating-point performance
499.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
512
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.00
34.27
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-