RTX A40 vs Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameMarsGA102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date10 January 2014 (10 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 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 cores38410752
Core clock speed650 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors950 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate16.80589.7
Floating-point processing power0.5376 TFLOPS37.74 TFLOPS
ROPs8112
TMUs24336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB48 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1812 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s695.8 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 outputs3x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2014 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX A40 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand and RTX A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand is a notebook card while RTX A40 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand
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