AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 8570

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 125.00

$ 62.50

$ 62.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

167 points

38% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

6887 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

7233 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

6022 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

7233 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

Identical

730 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

120% significantly lower TDP

66 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 586

456th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon HD 8570 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon HD 8570 beats the Radeon R7 240 in gaming performance.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the Radeon R7 240 and the Radeon HD 8570 have the same base clock speed.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8570 at 66 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon HD 8570 is better than the Radeon R7 240.