Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator 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

In theory, the Geforce GTX 770 is 679% faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be much (more or less 817%) more effective at 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 a large margin. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.