Radeon HD 8570A vs R7 240

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking850not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.16no data
Power efficiency5.32no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameOlandSun
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$69 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320320
Core clock speedno data750 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHz825 MHz
Number of transistors950 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate14.0016.50
Floating-point processing power0.448 TFLOPS0.528 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2020

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8MXM-A (3.0)
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsN/Ano data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s16 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 1 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB

R7 240 has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 240 and Radeon HD 8570A. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 240 is a desktop card while Radeon HD 8570A is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 240
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