AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 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

250 points

106% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

7 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

6 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

16214 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

19779 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

13742 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

12796 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

850 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

650% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 586

401st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 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 8950 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8950 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8950 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 HD 8950 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 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 HD 8950 over the Radeon R7 240.