Radeon R7 240 and Radeon X1800 XT - video card comparison

Radeon R7 240

Radeon X1800 XT

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

Oland

R520

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

October 2005

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

780 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

600 MHz

Floating-point performance

499.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

321 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

-

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

113 Watt

Texture fill rate

14.00

9.600

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1150 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

44.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

9.0c (9_3)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-