AMD Radeon R5 240 vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB, 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

4% slightly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

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

Identical

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points

0.84% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5013 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points

5527 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4658 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points

4925 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

925 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 586

428th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.3

Radeon R5 240 vs Radeon R5 M255 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 240 beats the Radeon R5 M255 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R5 M255 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon R5 M255 has significantly more memory with 4 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R5 240 is faster than the Radeon R5 M255.