Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand vs RX 580

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking244not rated
Place by popularity1not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation18.56no data
Power efficiency8.51no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20Mars
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)10 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

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 cores2304384
Core clock speed1257 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed1340 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Wattno data
Texture fill rate193.016.80
Floating-point processing power6.175 TFLOPS0.5376 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs14424

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 10 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

RX 580 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 and Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 is a desktop card while Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand is a notebook one.


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