AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, 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
$ 54.90
$ 0.09 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
76% significantly better overall score
121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 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
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2056 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed
719 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
33 W
51% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 586
486th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 April

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 720M specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the Radeon R5 240 has a slightly 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 GeForce GT 720M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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

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