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GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB vs Radeon HD 5570
IntroThe GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB has clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5570, which comes with GPU core speed of 650 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 400(80x5) Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthIn theory, the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 5570 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB is a lot (about 35%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon HD 5570 is a little bit (more or less 18%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 1GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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