AMD RADEON R7 240 AMD COMPUTER GRAPHICS CARDS

Sub-$100 Graphics

As an enthusiast hardware đánh giá site, we generally don’t reviews low over graphics hardware, but it’s understandable that not everyone needs khổng lồ have the latest $500+ graphics cards and it’s always interesting khổng lồ see just how far you could get with a sub-$100 budget.

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Today we’ll be reviewing two entry màn chơi Radeon R7 series graphics cards from ASUS, the asus Radeon R7 240 & R7 250. In terms of specs, both the hãng asus Radeon R7 240 and Radeon R7 250 are equipped with 28nm Oland GPUs with a choice between the Radeon R7 250 containing a fully unlocked Oland GPU (aka Oland XT) paired with faster GDDR5 memory, or the Radeon R7 240 with a slightly neutered Oland GPU (aka Oland Pro) paired with slower DDR3 memory.

With that said, let’s take a closer look!

Specifications

ManufacturerModelGPUFabricationBase ClockBoost ClockArchitectureStream ProcessorsTexture UnitsROPsMemory ConfigurationMemory InterfaceMemory Frequency

ASUS	ASUS
Radeon R7 240	Radeon R7 250
Oland Pro	Oland XT
28nm	28nm
1000 MHz	1050 MHz
N/A	N/A
GCN	GCN
320	384
20	24
8	8
2GB GDDR3	1GB GDDR5
128-bit	128-bit
900 MHz (1800MHz Effective)	1150 MHz (4.6 GHz Effective)

A Closer Look at theASUS Radeon R7 240

Here’s a look at the packaging for the hãng asus Radeon R7 240.

Included we get some documentation, a driver disk, two low profile adapters (one for VGA và one for DVI/HDMI, allowing both to lớn be used simultaneously with two PCIe slots), và the hãng asus Radeon R7 240 itself.

Here’s a closer look at the hãng asus Radeon R7 240.Here we can see that the thẻ is a fairly small single slot, low profile design. Cooling is handled by a single heatsink with a fairly small 37mm fan mounted on the heatsink. Given that the Radeon R7 240 has a TDP of only 30w, no external nguồn is needed.

Video outputs include the usual VGA, HDMI & DVI. Unfortunately although a Dual liên kết DVI port is included, resolutions above 1920×1200 (high-resolution IPS, IGZO, etc. Displays) are not supported.

Removing the heatsink assembly, we can take a closer look at the components onboard the card.

The hãng asus Radeon R7 240 is powered by AMD’s 28nm Oland Pro GPU, which is a neutered version of the full Oland XT GPU used on the R7 250. With the Oland Pro (aka R7 240), AMD has disabled one of the Computer Units giving the GPU access lớn 320 stream processors, 8 ROPs and 20 TMUs.

Onboard memory is powered by eight Nanya NT5CB128M16HP-EK chips making up a total of 2GB of DDR3 running off a 128-bit memory interface.

A Closer Look at theASUS Radeon R7 250

Here’s a look at the packaging for the hãng asus Radeon R7 250.

The asus Radeon R7 250 is quite light on accessories with only some documentation & the graphics thẻ included in the packaging.

Here’s a closer look at the asus Radeon R7 250.We’ve got a full sized single slot PCIe card this time around with a slightly larger heatsink sporting a 72mm fan. Like the hãng asus Radeon R7 240, the R7 250 with a TDP of only 65w does not require external power.

Video outputs include the usual VGA, HDMI and DVI. Unfortunately although a Dual link DVI port is included, resolutions above 1920×1200 (high-resolution IPS, IGZO, etc. Displays) are not supported.

Removing the heatsink assembly, we can take a closer look at the components onboard the card.

The asus Radeon R7 250 is powered by AMD’s 28nm Oland XT GPU, which is the fully unlocked version of the Oland GPU. The GPU contains a total of 6 Compute Units giving the GPU access lớn 384 stream processors, 8 ROPs & 24 TMUs.

Onboard memory is powered by four Elpida W2032BBBG-6A-F chips making up a total of 1GB of GDDR5 running off a 128-bit memory interface.

ASUS Radeon R7 240, R7 250 Performance

Testing Setup

Ivy Bridge demo Bench

CPUMotherboardMemoryGraphicsBoot DriveStorage DrivePower SupplyCaseOptical DriveOperating System

Intel bộ vi xử lý core i5 3570K

Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H

Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB DDR3 2133MHz

N/A

OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB

Corsair HX650

HSPC High tốc độ Tech Station

ASUS OEM DVD Drive

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1

Special thanks toGigabyte,Kingston, OCZ giải pháp công nghệ andHSPCfor sponsoring our demo bench!

Initial Boot

ASUS Radeon R7 240

ASUS Radeon R7 250

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3D Mark

The new 3d Mark, now referred khổng lồ as just 3 chiều Mark, is Futuremark’s latest update lớn the popular 3 chiều Mark series of benchmarks. The updated 3 chiều Mark now includes multiple benchmarks for cross platform support as well as updated graphics to push the latest graphics cards lớn their limits.

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3D Mark 11

3D Mark 11 is an extremely popular benchmark designed by Futuremark for the sole purpose of áp lực testing a system’s graphics performance. Trusted by hardware enthusiasts and gamers world wide, 3d Mark 11 uses the latest features of DX11 to stress test graphics performance with consistent loads which simulate in trò chơi performance.

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Unigine Heaven v4.0

Unigine Heaven is another DX11 benchmark that stresses the graphical processing capabilities of the GPU using the advanced UNIGINE engine.

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Shogun 2: Total War

Shogun 2: Total War is the most recent installment of the long running Total War series. Capable of using DX11’s features, it’s the perfect benchmark to thử nghiệm for the gaming performance. For our testing today, we’ll be using the Shogun 2: Total War benchmark utility.

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Crysis 2

As the successor khổng lồ Crysis, which was hailed as the most graphically intensive trò chơi of all time when it was released in late 2007, Crysis 2 is less graphically demanding than its predecessor, but still one of the most graphically challenging games of all time. You simply can’t take a step in Crysis 2 without stepping into some intensetessellation. Combined with rich lighting, insane physics, và oodles of post processing, Crysis 2 requires a ton of graphics muscle khổng lồ run.

Today, we’ll be benchmarking Crysis 2 in the map “Central Park” with the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool.

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Metro 2033

Similar to Crysis 2, Metro 2033 is extremelytessellationintensive và fills the ranks as one of the most graphically intense games of all time.

Today, we’ll be benchmarking Metro 2033’s Frontline map using the Metro 2033’s included Benchmark Utility.

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Sleeping Dogs

Released in 2012, Sleeping Dogs is an mở cửa world action-adventure title based on the infamous Hong Kong triads. With an mở cửa world environment, fast paced kích hoạt and excellent graphics, Sleeping Dogs makes for a perfect kiểm tra of graphics thẻ capability. For our benchmarking today, we’ll be using Adrenaline’s action Benchmark Tool.

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Hitman: Absolution

Hitman: Absolution is a action adventure trò chơi released in late 2012 which focuses on the hitman, Agent 47, & his assassination missions. After a 6 year hiatus, the Hitman series is back in full force with updated graphics based off the developer, Square Enix/IO Interactive’s Glacier 2 engine.For our benchmarking today, we’ll be usingAdrenaline’s kích hoạt Benchmark Tool.

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Battlefield 4

Only a year after the initial release of Battlefield 3, the team at DICE went back to the drawing board khổng lồ introduce their latest và greatest modern combat shooter, Battlefield 4. Based off DICE’s all-new Frostbite 3 engine, Battlefield 4 brings a new cấp độ of realism to lớn the world of PC & console gaming with an unparalleled level of visual immersion, realistic character animations, and physics driven dynamic environments.

For our benchmarking, we’ll be doing a benchmark on a 60 second run of the trò chơi at the beginning of the Tashgar mission. While this scene doesn’t involve any firefights, it’s a very graphics intensive scene that involves a fast moving drive through the hills of Tashgar, which makes heavy use of the Frostbite 3’s motion blurring, depth of field, particle effects, & real time lighting engine.

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Power Consumption

For nguồn consumption testing, we’ll be measuring full system power nguồn while idle along with full system nguồn with the graphics thẻ running at full load using Furmark. All nguồn consumption measurements will be measured with the Extech 380801 power nguồn Analyzer.

Temperature Testing

For temperature testing, we’ll be measuring both graphics card temperatures when the graphics thẻ is idle for 5 minutes after a cold boot. Load temperatures are taken after a full 30 minute burn using Furmark.

While some of you aren’t huge fans of Furmark as it creates an ultra heavy, unrealistic load on the graphics card, we feel like it’s a more useful tool as it differentiates between graphics cards that have extremely well designed coolers and ones that simply have cooling solutions that simply pass the test, if you will. Most games these days generally don’t create enough of a load/heat lớn even exceed temperatures where the fans would spin up on most custom coolers so it’s difficult khổng lồ adequately rank cooling solutions without using a tool like Furmark.

ASUS Radeon R7 240, R7 250Conclusions

All right, so with benchmarks out of the way, let’s talk about some final thoughts here.

From an enthusiast point of view, performance on the hãng asus Radeon R7 240 và R7 250 definitely doesn’t impress all that much. After all, you really can’t expect too much out of a sub-$100 graphics card. That said, it does run modern games… and it does it reasonably well at lower resolutions and lower quality settings so those looking for a cheap stop-gap solution before purchasing a new gaming system may find the R7 240 or R7 250 the perfect drop-in cards for the task.

The hãng asus Radeon R7 240 can generally be found at around $70 and the hãng asus Radeon R7 250 can generally be found at around $90, which makes it one of the few graphics cards on the market under $100. It also happens to lớn be one of the few graphics cards on the market that’s capable of running without any external power, which should be of great interest for those stuck with older, pre-built systems that don’t have external power & simply don’t have the CPU or GPU processing nguồn for HD đoạn clip decoding or light gaming.While those stuck in this type of scenario who still want to bởi vì 1080p gaming with medium unique settings have the option of going with the newly introduced Nvidia GeForce GTX 750/750 Ti, it will come at a significantly higher price-point, which may be unnecessary for those simply looking to play a bit of old school Counter Strike.

Overall, while the asus Radeon R7 240 & Radeon R7 250 isn’t anywhere near the most impressive graphics card we’ve seen to date, it’s a product that fills a necessary gap for those with older, mostly pre-built systems who aren’t necessarily heavy gamers, but need a cheap graphics card for simple 1080p video playback or light gaming. If that fits your description, definitely be sure to kiểm tra out what ASUS’s Radeon R7 series has to offer.