Best R5 240 Overclocking Settings Guide
Looking to push more performance out of the AMD Radeon R5 240? This guide walks through the exact overclocking steps and benchmarks that show how much extra speed this OEM card can still deliver. The R5 240 may be a budget friendly GPU from 2013, but with the right tuning it can produce surprisingly solid 720p results across a wide range of games:
This is the AMD Radeon R5 240 and we’re going to overclock and benchmark it.
Now before we jump into all the great benchmarking, let’s take a look at this legacy graphics card and see what we’re dealing with. The R5 240 is an OEM graphics card that was first released in late 2013. It’s based on the Oland graphics processor, has 384 shaders, and supports DirectX 12 feature set 11.1. The card runs at between 730 and 775 MHz core clock and between 900 and 1000 MHz memory clock. The card is low profile and features a single cooling fan. The R5 240 comes with 1 or 2 GB of DDR3 or GDDR3 memory and uses up to 50 watts of power.
So let’s get ready to overclock and benchmark this bad boy and see what kind of performance we can push out of it.
The first thing we did was update the drivers. The Adrenalin 22.6.1 drivers are what AMD offered for this card, so we installed those.
The overclocking utility we used is MSI Afterburner version 4.6.5. If you don’t know MSI Afterburner, it’s a completely free tool. Link for the program will be down below.
Now if you’re unfamiliar with the basics of overclocking and how to obtain a stable overclock for your graphics card, there are a number of full overclock guide on the site that will take you step by step through everything you need to know.
The program we used to test our overclock for stability and performance is Unigine Superposition version 1.1. It’s also a free tool.
Now I’m going to put a list of known successful R5 240 overclock values on the screen. Every card is different, but this should give you a good starting point in figuring out potential overclock values that may work for you.
So how did our test card do with overclocking. Well, after a couple dozen tests, this particular card was able to reach a solid overclock of 1040 MHz core clock and 1220 MHz memory clock. This seems quite good and fits well within the range of the other example overclocks for this card.
Let’s run through a set of 10 different benchmarks to see how the R5 240 performed. First up we’ve got Unigine Superposition benchmark tool. Running at the 720p Low preset, base results achieved a score of 1751. After overclock, the score increased to 2153. That’s an increase of 23 percent. Not bad at all. Let’s see how the other benchmarks did.
Next up is Mafia 2 Definitive Edition benchmark. Running at 720p in the lowest settings, base FPS came in at 15.0. After overclock, FPS increased to 18.6. That’s an increase of 24 percent. Another impressive boost to performance to be had here.
Next we’ve got BioShock Infinite benchmark. Running at 720p in the Very Low preset, initial average FPS came in at 57.7. After overclock, average FPS increased to 70.6. That’s an increase of 22.4 percent. A solid boost to performance with this title for sure.
Next, for all our video editors out there, we’ve got Blackmagic RAW Speed Test. Testing the performance for decoding 1080p RAW video files, initial results came in at 118 frames per second. After overclocking, results increased to 140 frames per second. That’s an increase of 18.6 percent. Certainly a nice increase, however it still lags significantly behind the Ryzen 5 1600 CPU we used in the test machine.
Next up is CS GO benchmark map. Running at 720p in the lowest settings, base FPS came in at 91.4. After overclock, FPS increased to 113.2. That’s an increase of 23.9 percent. Yet again some excellent overclock results for CS GO.
Next up we’ve got Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker benchmark. Running at 720p in the Standard preset, base results achieved a score of 3227 or Slightly Low rating. After overclock, the score increased to 3960, also Slightly Low. That represents an increase of 22.7 percent. A noticeable boost to performance with this title for sure.
Next up is Forza Horizon 4 benchmark. Running at 720p in the Very Low preset, initial average FPS came in at 18.7. After overclock, the score increased to 21.9. That’s an increase of 17.1 percent. A solid increase for sure, though this title was limited by having only 1 GB of VRAM.
Next up is Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition benchmark. Running at 720p in the lowest settings, initial average FPS came in at 31.6. After overclock, average FPS increased to 38.6. That’s an increase of 22.2 percent. Another impressive boost of performance for Sleeping Dogs.
Next up is Grand Theft Auto 5 benchmark. Running at 1080p, 50 percent resolution scaling, and everything turned down as low as it would go, initial average FPS came in at 63.0. After overclock, average FPS increased to 73.0. That’s an increase of 15.9 percent. A solid, though not spectacular, boost for GTA 5.
Next up is Borderlands 3 benchmark. Running at 1080p, 50 percent resolution scaling, and Very Low settings, initial average FPS came in at 22.4. After overclock, average FPS increased to 27.6. That’s an increase of 23.2 percent. An excellent boost to performance for Borderlands 3.
So there you have it. The AMD Radeon R5 240. Certainly a card that’s getting on in years, but an impressive overclocker and able to deliver some solid 720p performance as well.
Do you have any experience using this card? If so, let us know in the video comments!
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