Radeon R7 240 and Radeon RX 580 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R7 240
Radeon RX 580 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Oland
Ellesmere
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
June 2016
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
780 MHz
1266 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1120 MHz
Floating-point performance
499.2 gflops
5,834 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.00
182.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x HDMI, 3x 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
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-