AMD Radeon R7 240
VS
AMD Baffin
AMD Radeon R7 240
VS
AMD Baffin

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

699
Place in performance rating
not rated
13.47
Value for money (0-100)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Oland
Code name
Baffin
Desktop
Type
Desktop
8 October 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
no data
$69
Launch price (MSRP)
$261 (3.8x MSRP)
Price now
$78
reference
Design
no data
GCN generation
4.0
0.22
Value for money
no data
Oland
GPU code name
Baffin
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
1024
no data
Core clock speed
855 MHz
780 MHz
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
950 million
Transistor count
3,000 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
50 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
80 W
14.00
Texture fill rate
499.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
780 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
950 million
Number of transistors
3,000 million
50 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
168 mm
Length
N/A
Supplementary power connectors
PCIe 3.0
Bus support

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
128 Bit
Memory bus width
1150 MHz
Memory clock speed
72 GB/s
Memory bandwidth

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Display Connectors
+
HDMI
-
DisplayPort support

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin is the additional functionality.

-
AppAcceleration
1
CrossFire
1
FreeSync
-
HD3D
-
PowerTune
-
TrueAudio
-
ZeroCore
+
DDMA audio
-
Enduro

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
5.1
Shader Model
1.2
OpenCL
-
Mantle

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Baffin graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon R7 240 or AMD Baffin good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
AMD Baffin
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
AMD Baffin
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
AMD Baffin
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
AMD Baffin
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R7 240
AMD Baffin
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 240

3.66% faster in synthetic tests

Less power consumption (50 Watt vs 80 W)

Advantages of AMD Baffin

Cheaper ($78 vs $261 (3.8x MSRP))

More pipelines (1024 vs 320)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon R7 240 or AMD Baffin?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R7 240 .

AMD Radeon R7 240 versus AMD Baffin performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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