AMD Radeon R5 240 vs AMD Radeon R5

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R5, 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
$ 45.99
$ 9.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
108% significantly better overall score
102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4869 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points
5160 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
5213 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points
5075 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz
264% significantly higher core clock speed
200 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
15 W
233% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

416th of 586
502nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 September

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 Radeon R5 benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the Radeon R5 240 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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

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