AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon R7 430

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 430, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 125.00
$ 9.04 slightly less expensive
$ 134.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
204 points
68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
5 FPS
1 FPS significantly 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
4 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points
6738 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points
6940 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points
6591 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4960 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz
Identical
730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz
Identical
780 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
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
66% significantly lower TDP
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s
Identical
6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s
18.72 Gigatexels/s
20% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320
384
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20
24
20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

489th of 586
427th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 430 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R7 430 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the Radeon R7 240 and the Radeon R7 430 have the same base clock speed.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon R7 430 at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 430 is faster than the Radeon R7 240.

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