Radeon R5 240 OEM vs HD 6290

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Zacate	Oland
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 July 2011 (12 years ago)	1 November 2013 (10 years ago)
Current price	no data	$240

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	80	384
Core clock speed	280 MHz	730 MHz
Boost clock speed	400 MHz	780 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	5.200	18.72
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	499.2 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6290 and Radeon R5 240 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

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 type	GDDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	14.4 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	+	+

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 July 2011	1 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	50 Watt

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