AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 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

575 points

169% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

11 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

10 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points

10170 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points

9069 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points

9820 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points

8825 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

993 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

419th of 586

316th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

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 GTX 950M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950M graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 240 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 950M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the Radeon R5 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 950M is faster than the Radeon R5 240.