AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, 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
232 points
8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
6 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

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
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
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

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

421st of 586
408th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
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 740M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740M beats the Radeon R5 240 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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

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