AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD FirePro W2100

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD FirePro W2100, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD FirePro W2100

Price

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$ 125.00

$ 75.00

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

Identical

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4425 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4070 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4497 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

630 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

680 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

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128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

26 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

5.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

13.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

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320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

485th of 586

486th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

FirePro

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs FirePro W2100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the FirePro W2100 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 240 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 240 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon R7 240 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the FirePro W2100 has a slightly lower TDP at 26 W when compared to the Radeon R7 240 at 30 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the FirePro W2100 over the Radeon R7 240.