AMD Radeon R7 240 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R7 240 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Price

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$ 125.00

$ 270.99 significantly less expensive

$ 395.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

130 points

4311 points

3216% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

89 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

64 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

78 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

37 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5326 points

57968 points

988% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

48131 points

858% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5101 points

65528 points

1184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5023 points

77765 points

1448% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

1130 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1560 MHz

100% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

72 GB/s

336 GB/s

366% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

400% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

1499% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

15.6 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

1340% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

2304

619% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

619% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 594

117th of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR6

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 RX 5600 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 240 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5600 XT has a significantly 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 RX 5600 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is faster than the Radeon R7 240.