GeForce GT 620 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GT 620
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 620
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 620

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GT 620Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-100-KB-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders96vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock700 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 620Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 620Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP49 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date15 May 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 620
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 620
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 620
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 620
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better