Radeon R5 240 OEM vs GeForce GTX 970M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking284not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.53no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameno dataOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 October 2014 (11 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 cores2560384
Core clock speed924 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1038 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors2x 5200 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)162 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.72
Floating-point processing powerno data0.599 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24
L1 Cacheno data96 KB
L2 Cacheno data128 KB

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

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 amount2x 6 GB2 GB
Memory bus width2x 192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2014 1 November 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 162 Watt 50 Watt

GTX 970M SLI has an age advantage of 11 months.

R5 240 OEM, on the other hand, has 224% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon R5 240 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 970M SLI is a notebook graphics card while Radeon R5 240 OEM is a desktop one.

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