HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1) vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 240 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 240 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 240 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameSandy Bridge GT1 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process32 nmvs28 nm
Die Size149 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors189 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders6vs320
Compute Units0vs5
Core clock850 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs1vs8
TMUs1vs20

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs128 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    0.85 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    0.85 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 2000 (Sandy Bridge GT1)
    10.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better