AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 240 and AMD Radeon HD 6870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 151 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 1050 MHz
• Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5331 vs 4950

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870

• Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 780 MHz
• 3.2x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
• 3.5x more pipelines: 1120 vs 320
• 4x better floating-point performance: 2,016.0 gflops vs 499.2 gflops
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2208 vs 902
• Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 416 vs 274
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 16.41 vs 13.344
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 857.798 vs 290.632
• Around 7% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.346 vs 1.262
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 45.514 vs 21.59
• 3.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 184.41 vs 60.326
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4238 vs 1688
• Around 58% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3711 vs 2342
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4238 vs 1688
• Around 58% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3711 vs 2342

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 240
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	902 2208
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	274 416
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5331 4950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	13.344 16.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	290.632 857.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.262 1.346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.59 45.514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	60.326 184.41
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1688 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2342 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1688 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2342 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3349

Compare specifications (specs)