Radeon R5 M250 vs R5 A240

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking979not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.04no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameOlandJet
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2014 (10 years ago)no data

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 cores320320
Core clock speed1030 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors950 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate15.6014.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.448 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2020

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 3.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MBps1800 MBps
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s14.4 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 1.4a, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB

R5 A240 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A240 and Radeon R5 M250. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 A240
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