Quadro P5000 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 8240

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1192not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.92no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameKalindiN17E-Q5 Max-Q
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date1 November 2013 (11 years ago)11 January 2017 (7 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 cores1282048
Core clock speed400 MHz1101 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1366 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200no data
Floating-point processing power0.1024 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPno data
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared6006 MHz
Shared memory+-

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 data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12_1
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2013 11 January 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 100 Watt

HD 8240 has 566.7% lower power consumption.

P5000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8240 and Quadro P5000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8240 is a desktop card while Quadro P5000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8240
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NVIDIA Quadro P5000 Max-Q
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