Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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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

The Geforce GTX 770 should in theory be quite a bit faster than 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 should be a lot (more or less 817%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 770 is the winner, and very much so. (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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.