AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

9% slightly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly 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

Identical

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

5804 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

143% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1100 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

15 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

41% slightly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

66% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

489th of 586

499th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

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 Radeon Vega 3 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon Vega 3 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

The Radeon R7 240 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 3 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R7 240 at 30 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 3 is better than the Radeon R7 240.