ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 vs R5 240 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated777
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.12
Power efficiencyno data0.85
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameOlandR700
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 November 2013 (10 years ago)7 November 2008 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$420

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores384800
Core clock speed730 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate18.7225.00
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPS1 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2440

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 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz995 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s63.68 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA4x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2013 7 November 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt

R5 240 OEM has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 240 OEM and Radeon HD 4850 X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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