Radeon R7 240 vs R5 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated850
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.16
Power efficiencyno data5.32
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameSpectre SLOland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)8 October 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$69

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 cores256320
Core clock speed497 MHzno data
Boost clock speed720 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate7.95214.00
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS0.448 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1620

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data168 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataN/A

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 Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1150 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data72 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+
DDMA audiono data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)DirectX® 12
Shader Model6.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 8 October 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

R5 Graphics has an age advantage of 11 months, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and Radeon R7 240. We've got no test results to judge.


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