AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand and AMD Radeon R9 M290X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Around 31% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 700 MHz
4.3x more texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
4.3x better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 650 MHz
Boost clock speed	900 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,304 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M290X

Name	AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand	AMD Radeon R9 M290X
PassMark - G3D Mark		3256
PassMark - G2D Mark		430
Geekbench - OpenCL		23514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		51.022
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		936.497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.62
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		77.584
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		258.046
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6666
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2526
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6666
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2526

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand	AMD Radeon R9 M290X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Mars	Neptune
Launch date	10 January 2014	9 January 2014
Place in performance rating	not rated	598
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	700 MHz	900 MHz
Core clock speed	650 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	537.6 gflops	2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1280
Texture fill rate	16.8 GTexel / s	72 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	2,800 million
Compute units		20
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Mantle
OpenCL		Not Listed
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore