Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand vs HD 7470M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1091not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.56no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameSeymourMars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2012 (12 years ago)10 January 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores160384
Core clock speed750 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors370 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.40016.80
Floating-point processing power0.256 TFLOPS0.5376 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2012 10 January 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R5 M240 Rebrand has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

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