In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 Desktop are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB.

The R7 240 has a 330 MHz higher core clock speed and 12 more Texture Mapping Units than the Pro Graphics. This results in the R7 240 providing 11.4 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 240 has a 330 MHz higher core clock speed and 4 more Render Output Units than the Pro Graphics. This results in the R7 240 providing 4.2 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 240 was released less than a year after the Pro Graphics, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

The R7 240 has 2048 MB video memory, but the Pro Graphics does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB has 320 Shader Processing Units and the Iris Pro Graphics 5200 Desktop has 160. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 240 is 212 and the actual shader performance of the Pro Graphics is 314. The Pro Graphics having 102 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the R7 240 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The Pro Graphics transistor size technology is 6 nm (nanometers) smaller than the R7 240. This means that the Pro Graphics is expected to run very slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the R7 240.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB requires 30 Watts to run and the Iris Pro Graphics 5200 Desktop requires 28 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 240. The R7 240 requires 2 Watts more than the Pro Graphics to run. The difference is not significant enough for the R7 240 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the Pro Graphics.