AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon R5

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R5, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5

Price

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$ 125.00

$ 45.99

$ 79.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

18% slightly better overall score

102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

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

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4869 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

5160 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

5213 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

5075 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

264% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

900 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

15 W

100% significantly lower TDP

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

25% slightly more shading units

256

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 586

503rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 September

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 Radeon R5 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R5 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 240 in gaming.

The Radeon R7 240 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon R5 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 R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R7 240 at 30 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R5 is faster than the Radeon R7 240.