Radeon HD 8530M vs R5 M240

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1071not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameJetMars
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date18 September 2014 (10 years ago)10 January 2014 (10 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 cores320320
Core clock speed1000 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speedno data700 MHz
Number of transistors690 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Texture fill rate20.6011.20
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS0.448 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2016

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 supportNot Listedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeNot ListedDDR3
Maximum RAM amount0 MB1 GB
Memory bus widthNot Listed64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 outputs
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Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
HD3D+-
PowerTune+-
DualGraphics+-
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Switchable graphics+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCLNot Listed1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 September 2014 10 January 2014

R5 M240 has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M240 and Radeon HD 8530M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 M240
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