ATI Radeon 9550 XT vs R5 M240
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1101 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | Rage 8 (2002−2007) |
| GPU code name | Jet | RV350 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | 18 September 2014 (10 years ago) | 4 May 2005 (20 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 cores | 320 | no data |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | 425 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 690 million | 60 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 130 nm |
| Texture fill rate | 20.60 | 1.700 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.6592 TFLOPS | no data |
| ROPs | 8 | 4 |
| TMUs | 20 | 4 |
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).
| Bus support | Not Listed | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | AGP 8x |
| Width | no data | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 type | Not Listed | DDR |
| Maximum RAM amount | 0 MB | 128 MB |
| Memory bus width | Not Listed | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 325 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 14.4 GB/s | 10.4 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 Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
| Eyefinity | + | - |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| AppAcceleration | + | - |
| HD3D | + | - |
| PowerTune | + | - |
| DualGraphics | + | - |
| ZeroCore | + | - |
| Switchable graphics | + | - |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | 9.0 (9_0) |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 2.0 |
| OpenCL | Not Listed | N/A |
| Vulkan | - | N/A |
| Mantle | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 18 September 2014 | 4 May 2005 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 130 nm |
R5 M240 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M240 and Radeon 9550 XT. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon R5 M240 is a notebook graphics card while Radeon 9550 XT is a desktop one.
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