Intel HD 515 vs AMD Radeon R5 240

Compare Intel HD 515 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

74 points

213 points

187% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

1 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3332 points

5055 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3491 points

4874 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2836 points

4984 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3403 points

4242 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

730 MHz

143% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

233% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

517th of 586

424th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

HD 515 vs Radeon R5 240 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R5 240 graphics card is better than the HD 515 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R5 240 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the HD 515 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R5 240 over the HD 515.