AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Price

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$ 54.99

$ 512.00 significantly less expensive

$ 566.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points

13240 points

6115% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

310 FPS

304 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

156 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

229 FPS

224 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

125 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points

188870 points

3689% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points

181089 points

4168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

2325 MHz

218% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

400% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

429th of 597

27th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

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 RTX 5070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 240 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5070 has a significantly 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 RTX 5070 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 is better than the Radeon R5 240.