AMD Radeon R5 240 vs AMD Radeon R7 M260

Compare AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 M260 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
232 points
8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
Identical
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
Identical
5 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
5767 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points
5710 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4984 points
5130 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4242 points
5311 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz
940 MHz
28% 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

425th of 586
408th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.3

Radeon R5 240 vs Radeon R7 M260 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 M260 beats the Radeon R5 240 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 M260 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R7 M260 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 M260 is better than the Radeon R5 240.

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