
Radeon R9 295X2 and Radeon R7 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon R7 240
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
Radeon R7 240
930
Radeon R9 295X2
Radeon R7 240
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
October 2013
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
780 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
320
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
179.2
14.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
72 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
+
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-