GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 240, which has GPU clock speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 Stream Processors, 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 570		4387 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 3169 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 189 Watts (630%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 570 should be 428% faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 123200 (428%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 is quite a bit (more or less 201%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29320 (201%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23440 (401%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out 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 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 could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.