AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, 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
$ 294.96 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

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

5 FPS
Identical
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 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
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points
4286 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
28% slightly lower TDP
64 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

421st of 586
418th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR5

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 740 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 240 in gaming.

In addition, the Radeon R5 240 has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 740 is faster than the Radeon R5 240.

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