Intel Iris 540 vs AMD Radeon R5 240

Compare Intel Iris 540 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

213 points

Identical

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

Identical

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6252 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5055 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6697 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4874 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6277 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4984 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6234 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4242 points

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

424th of 586

422nd of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Iris 540 vs Radeon R5 240 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 240 beats the Iris 540 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R5 240 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.

In addition, the Iris 540 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R5 240 is faster than the Iris 540.