AMD Radeon R5 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Price

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$ 54.99

$ 2710.74 significantly less expensive

$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points

42789 points

19988% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

1019 FPS

1014 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

503 FPS

500 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

740 FPS

735 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

425 FPS

424 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points

383325 points

7591% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points

380401 points

8867% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

2017 MHz

176% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

32 GiB

1500% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

1049% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

425th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January

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 5090 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 240 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5090 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R5 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the Radeon R5 240.