Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 6610 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
AMD
Radeon HD 6610
1024 Mb GDDR3
Released 20 Mar 2013
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
2048 Mb DDR3
Released 1 Nov 2013
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6610
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Mantle
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 6610 | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood PRO) | Oland () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 400 | 320 |
| Compute Units | 5 | 5 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | 730 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 20 | 20 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 6610 | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6610 | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Mar 2013 | 1 Nov 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 66105.20 GP/s
- Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)5.84 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 661013.00 GT/s
- Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)14.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 661025.60 GB/s
- Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 6610520.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)467.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better