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AMD Radeon R5 240

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of Radeon R5 240

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AMD Radeon R5 240

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Slightly better PassMark score 966 vs 382 More than 2.5x better PassMark score
More memory 2,048 MB vs 1,024 MB 2x more memory
Slightly higher memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s 2x higher memory bandwidth
Wider memory bus 128 bit vs 64 bit 2x wider memory bus
Slightly more texture mapping units 20 vs 8 12 more texture mapping units
Slightly better T-Rex score 1.01 frames/s vs 0.31 frames/s Around 3.2x better T-Rex score
Slightly better PassMark direct compute score 621 vs 237 More than 2.5x better PassMark direct compute score
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Higher clock speed 875 MHz vs 730 MHz Around 20% higher clock speed

Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R5 240 vs HD 8490

PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark

Radeon R5 240
966
Radeon HD 8490
382

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R5 240
76.85 mHash/s
Radeon HD 8490
13.08 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R5 240
13.53 mPixels/s
Radeon HD 8490
2.02 mPixels/s

Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R5 240
162.89 frames/s
Radeon HD 8490
126.59 frames/s

Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R5 240
108.86 mInteraction/s
Radeon HD 8490
44.91 mInteraction/s

T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R5 240
1.01 frames/s
Radeon HD 8490
0.31 frames/s

Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon R5 240
20.12 frames/s
Radeon HD 8490
6.75 frames/s

PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute

Radeon R5 240
621
Radeon HD 8490
237

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Stoney Huff (11:00 PM, March 5, 2017)
I see only 1GB versions of R5-240 and only by AMD. Are you certain of the specs of the R5-240? Its newer 28nm GPU gives it the advantage no question. My DDR3 HD8490 -1GB by AMD for Dell has two RAM chips Micron 30K77 - D9PTC
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