NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R5 240

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5 240

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 54.99

$ 115.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

444% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5055 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

268% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4874 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

260% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4984 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

304% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4242 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

85% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

419th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R5 240 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 240 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R5 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the Radeon R5 240.