NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs AMD Radeon R7 240

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon R7 240 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
• Around 44% higher boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 780 MHz
• Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
• Around 73% better floating-point performance: 863.2 gflops vs 499.2 gflops
• Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 74% higher memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 1150 MHz
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1096 vs 898
• Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5745 vs 5212
• Around 71% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 22.848 vs 13.344
• Around 58% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 95.545 vs 60.326
• Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2085 vs 1688
• Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2736 vs 2342
• Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2085 vs 1688
• Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2736 vs 2342

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240

• Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 273 vs 151
• Around 79% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 290.632 vs 162.594
• Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.262 vs 1.237
• Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 21.59 vs 21.15
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3191
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 240

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1096 898
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	151 273
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5745 5212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22.848 13.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	162.594 290.632
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.237 1.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.15 21.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	95.545 60.326
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 1688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 2342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 1688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 2342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3353

Compare specifications (specs)