GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 240, which comes with a core clock frequency of 730 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised 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 660 Ti		6013 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 4795 (394%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 115200 (400%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 602%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87880 (602%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 276%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 240, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16120 (276%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.