Radeon R9 270 and Radeon R7 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon R7 240
Radeon R9 270
4435
Radeon R7 240
930
Radeon R9 270
Radeon R7 240
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Curacao
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
October 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
780 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,368 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
320
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
74.00
14.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
72 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-