AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M, 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

121 points
9% slightly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 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

5326 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2151 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2182 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
16% slightly lower TDP
35 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s
136% significantly higher pixel rate
2.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s
47% significantly higher texture rate
10.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320
233% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20
25% slightly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 586
500th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2012 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 240 vs NVS 5400M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 240 beats the NVS 5400M in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a slightly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the NVS 5400M at 35 W. 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 R7 240 over the NVS 5400M.

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