Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 240, which has a clock frequency of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 770		7854 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 6636 (545%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (667%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 770 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 195584 (679%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 will be a lot (about 817%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119288 (817%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 770 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27632 (473%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.