XFX Radeon R7 240 Core Edition Video Card Review
The XFX R7 240 Core Edition (Cont’d)
Contents
The XFX R7 240 Core Edition uses a small, simple cooler with a 50 mm fan. This cooler does not touch the memory chips. As mentioned, the Radeon R7 240 has a TDP of 50 W. The card is 7.0” (178 mm) long.
Figure 5: Cooler removed
The video card uses a voltage regulator with two phases for the GPU and one phase for the memory chips. The voltage regulator circuit uses a digital design and is controlled by an ANPEC APW7153B chip. All capacitors are solid.
Figure 6: Voltage regulator
The reviewed video card uses eight Hynix H5TQ2G63BFR-11C DDR3 chips, each one storing 2 Gbits of data, comprising the 2 GiB of memory available on this video card. These chips can run up to 1,800 MHz. On this video card, they are accessed at 1,800 MHz, which means there is no margin for safely increasing the memory clock.
Figure 7: Two of the eight memory chips
The only accessories that come with this video card (besides a manual and a driver disc) are two brackets that can be used to install this video card in low profile cases, shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Accessories
Before seeing the performance results, let’s recap the main features of this video card.