Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

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	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Gen. 12 Xe (2020)
GPU code name	Oland	iDG1LPDEV
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	1 November 2013 (10 years ago)	1 March 2020 (4 years ago)
Current price	$240	no data

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	384	96
Core clock speed	730 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	1500 MHz
Number of transistors	950 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	18.72	no data
Floating-point performance	499.2 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R5 240 OEM and Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile 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 3.0 x8	no data
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	no data
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 VGA	no data
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	no data
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 November 2013	1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm

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