AMD R7 Series - A Little more Inside About the R7 Series

A follow up on my previous post from AMD's GPU14 tech day for those you are dying to know a little bit more detail for AMD's "budget" graphics cards. As we all know AMD have developed these graphics cards for everyday gamers who want a boost their PC performance but still keep up with their finances. Do not fret, gamers because AMD had designed the R7 series graphics cards to deliver optimal performance with enhanced graphics.

Okay now for the tini-tiny bit of detail about these graphics cards. The R7 Series is based on the acclaimed award-winning AMD architecture which is "Graphics Core Next" or GCN in popular terms, meaning having this kind of architecture the R7 series graphics cards are enable for the Mantle technology (see my previous post for further detail). In addition, the said graphics cards are bundled with AMD's App Acceleration feature, which can accelerate graphics performance because of GCN that can perform powerful parallel computing capabilities. And in closing, the said graphics cards are also enabled for AMD TrueAudio Technology (see my previous post for further detail).

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Product Specifications

Product Model	R7 240	R7 250	R7 260X
Price	$69	$89	$139
Stream Processors	320	384	896
Engine Clock	Up to 780 MHz	Up to 1.05 GHz	Up to 1.1 GHz
Compute Performance	499 GFLOPS	806 GFLOPS	1.97 TFLOPS
Memory Configuration	1GB GDDR5 or 2GB DDR3 / 128-bit	1GB GDDR5 or 2GB DDR3 / 128-bit	2GB GDDR5 / 128-bit
API Support	DirectX® 11.2 OpenGL 4.3 Mantle	DirectX® 11.2 OpenGL 4.3 Mantle	DirectX® 11.2 OpenGL 4.3 Mantle