Radeon HD 8240 IGP vs Radeon HD 5850
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8240 IGP |
| 136 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5850 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8240 IGP | | Radeon HD 5850 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Kalindi (Kalindi LP) | vs | Cypress (Cypress PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 110 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,178 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 128 | vs | 1440 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 18 |
| Core clock | 400 MHz | vs | 725 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 72 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8240 IGP | | Radeon HD 5850 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8240 IGP | | Radeon HD 5850 | |
|---|
| TDP | 15 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Nov 2013 | vs | 30 Sep 2009 |
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
1.60 GP/s
Radeon HD 5850
23.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
3.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 5850
52.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
0.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 5850
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8240 IGP
102.40 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 5850
2088.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better