Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 240, which features core clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 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 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 6432 (528%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (550%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 680 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 163456 (568%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be a lot (approximately 782%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114168 (782%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26352 (451%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.