AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M 2 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

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

Identical

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

6236 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

5952 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

650 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

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

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

5.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

16.8 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

384

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% 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

482nd of 586

497th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon HD 8730M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R7 240 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8730M in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 240 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. In addition, the Radeon R7 240 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 240 is better than the Radeon HD 8730M.