Radeon R5 240 OEM vs GeForce GT 630M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1007not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.91no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF108Oland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 March 2012 (12 years ago)1 November 2013 (11 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 cores96384
Core clock speedUp to 800 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors585 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.5618.72
Floating-point processing power0.2534 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1624

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI Express 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3\GDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus widthUp to 128bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 32.0 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI++
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolutionUp to 2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray+-
Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
DirectX 11.212 APIno data
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2012 1 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 50 Watt

GT 630M has 51.5% lower power consumption.

R5 240 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 630M and Radeon R5 240 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 630M is a notebook card while Radeon R5 240 OEM is a desktop one.


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