Radeon R7 240 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

Radeon R7 240

Switch GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Oland

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

March 2017

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

None

Boost clock speed

780 MHz

768 MHz

Floating-point performance

499.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

256

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

14.00

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1150 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.1.126

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-