AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 125.00

$ 54.90

$ 70.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

130 points

7% slightly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

Identical

1 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon R7 240 and the GeForce GT 720M? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

462% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

10% slightly lower TDP

33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

66% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

492nd of 597

496th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce GT 720M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 240 beats the GeForce GT 720M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 240 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. In addition, the Radeon R7 240 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a slightly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 240 is better than the GeForce GT 720M.