AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 54.99
$ 405.09 significantly less expensive
$ 460.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
43% significantly better overall score
148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
Identical
50 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 586
472nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R5 240 vs GeForce GT 720 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 720 beats the Radeon R5 240 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 720 over the Radeon R5 240.

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