AMD Radeon R5 240 vs AMD Radeon R7 430

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 430, 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
$ 79.05 significantly less expensive
$ 134.04

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
0 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

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5055 points
6738 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points
6940 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
6591 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points
4960 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz
Identical
730 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
Identical
50 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

425th of 586
433rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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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 Radeon R7 430 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R5 240 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 430 in gaming.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the Radeon R5 240 and the Radeon R7 430 have the same base clock speed.

In addition, both the Radeon R5 240 and the Radeon R7 430 have an identical TDP. 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 Radeon R5 240 over the Radeon R7 430.

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